| Popis: |
Combatants begins with the author’s personal life story. William Pike was born in 1952 in Tanganyika, where his father served as Provincial Commissioner. He saved up to tour Afghanistan and studied at the University of York, where he wrote an essay on the Yugoslav Partisans resistance group. Little did he know that he would later get involved with another guerrilla struggle. In London, Pike worked as a writer and journalist, and became a political activist for the Labour Party, returning to independent Tanzania as a freelance journalist in 1982. It was during his time in Swahili classes in Tanzania that he met Cathy Watson. They were married in Kampala on 3 June 1989. |
