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Introduction: Idi Amin Dada, man and myth
'Wrung from the withers of the Western Nile': background, birth and youth, 1928(?)-46
'He comes from a fighting race': life in the King's African Rifles, 1946(?)-59
A resistible rise? 1959-65
Amin and Obote, 1965-69
'Martial music': the build-up, the coup and the aftermath, 1969-71
A honeymoon and four divorces: the first two years of Uganda's Second Republic, 1971-73
The centre cannot hold: President Amin, 1973-76
Decline and fall: Idi Amin and Uganda, 1977-79, and after.
'Wrung from the withers of the Western Nile': background, birth and youth, 1928(?)-46
'He comes from a fighting race': life in the King's African Rifles, 1946(?)-59
A resistible rise? 1959-65
Amin and Obote, 1965-69
'Martial music': the build-up, the coup and the aftermath, 1969-71
A honeymoon and four divorces: the first two years of Uganda's Second Republic, 1971-73
The centre cannot hold: President Amin, 1973-76
Decline and fall: Idi Amin and Uganda, 1977-79, and after.