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The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo
Luise White · Indiana University Press · 2003
What it is
A historian’s study of the competing accounts of who killed Herbert Chitepo, and why the question still matters.
Read it knowing
It does not name a killer. It shows how each side told the story.
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