Bitter Harvest

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Bitter Harvest is a 2001 book by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. It is a follow-up to The Great Betrayal.

In this book, Smith sought to explain the reasons why his government declared its UDI, and how Rhodesia coped in the face of sanctions and terrorism until the pressures forced him and his government to accede to the wishes of his adversaries. Smith points to the current chaotic situation in Zimbabwe as proof that he was trying to prevent Rhodesia from suffering the same fate as other African states.

Bitter Harvest is published by Blakes Publishing (London) ISBN 1-903402-05-0

(Bitter Harvest is also the name of a British film from 1963 based on the book 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton and starring Janet Munro and John Stride.

It is also the title of a book by true crime author Ann Rule which details the dysfunctional family life of Dr. Deborah Green and her subsequent murder of her children by an arson fire in Prairie Village, Kansas. Published by Pocket Books ISBN 0-671-86869-1)