is the author's description of her time with the guerrillas in Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) and Mozambique. These conflicts are components of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974).Cornwall is definitely a fellow traveler if not an outright supporter of the gorilla's actions. She takes pains to claim that the guerrillas weren't Marxists. I'm not sure what exactly that says about her own politics. Occasionally the book is unintentionally funny, she didn't seem to realize that moving through a jungle could be rather difficult and unpleasant. Not much here from a military history perspective but still interesting as a relic of the last days of colonialism in Africa.
Mildly recommended.
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