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Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa: Susan Williams by

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June 2012, no. 342

Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa: Susan Williams 

Columbia University Press (Footprint Books), $52.95 hb, 331 pp, 9780231703208

Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa: Susan Williams by

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June 2012, no. 342

The circumstances surrounding Dag Hammarskjöld’s death on 18 September 1961 have been the subject of a catalogue of suspicion, speculation, and official scrutiny since the moment the charred carapace of his plane, the Albertina, was recovered outside Ndola, Zambia. Did it, as the then-Rhodesian authorities concluded, crash? Was it shot down by a mysterious second plane? Was it blown up by a carefully emplaced bomb? Susan Williams pursues all of these possibilities, and various subspecies of them, in her exhaustively researched account, Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa.

Roland Burke reviews 'Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa' by Susan Williams

Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa: Susan Williams

Columbia University Press (Footprint Books), $52.95 hb, 331 pp, 9780231703208

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