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Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre
Lightning Meets the West Wind The Malaita Massacre Author:Roger M. Keesing, Peter Corris The book covers the 1927 murder, while collecting taxes, of William Bell, colonial government representative on Malaita, in the Solomon Islands after a confrontation between the Australian and Kwaio warrior leader Basiana. The authors reconstruct, for the first time from both sides, the events leading up to Bell's murder and its aftermath.