"Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980 " Topic
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Tango01 | 01 Jan 2016 10:45 p.m. PST |
"It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counter-insurgency campaign fought between a mobile, motivated and highly trained Rhodesian security establishment and two constituted liberations movements motivated, resourced and inspired by the ideals of communist revolution in the third world. A complicated historical process of occupation and colonization set the tone as early as the late 1890s for what would at some point be an inevitable struggle for domination of this small, landlocked nation set in the southern tropics of Africa. The story of the Rhodesian War, or the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle, is not only an epic of superb military achievement, and revolutionary zeal and fervour, but is the tale of the incompatibility of the races in southern Africa, a clash of politics and ideals and, perhaps more importantly, the ongoing ramifications of the past upon the present, and the social and political scars that a war of such emotional underpinnings as the Rhodesian conflict has had on the modern psyche of Zimbabwe. The Rhodesian War was fought with finely tuned intelligence-gathering and -analysis techniques combined with a fluid and mobile armed response. The practitioners of both have justifiably been celebrated in countless histories, memoirs and campaign analyses, but what has never been attempted has been a concise, balanced and explanatory overview of the war, the military mechanisms and the social and political foundations that defined the crisis. This book does all of that. The Rhodesian War is explained in digestible detail and in a manner that will allow enthusiasts of the elements of that struggle – the iconic exploits of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, the SAS, the Selous Scouts, the Rhodesian African Rifles, the Rhodesia Regiment, among other well-known fighting units – to embrace the wider picture in order to place the various episodes in context"
See here link Can anybody recomended/or not… this book? Thanks in advance for your guidance. Amicalement Armand |
shaun from s and s models | 02 Jan 2016 3:10 a.m. PST |
we have several of those books from the series, very well worth getting imho! |
Tango01 | 02 Jan 2016 9:56 a.m. PST |
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rorymac | 02 Jan 2016 11:12 a.m. PST |
A little on the expensive side, but I plan to get all of these eventually. Good series. If they did a similar series on Central/South America I would get those, too. |
alan L | 02 Jan 2016 1:22 p.m. PST |
What Shaun said: definitely. Woth getting, as well as those others in the series. |
Greg G1 | 02 Jan 2016 2:20 p.m. PST |
I managed to get some titles cheap through Amazon, last year. I just had a quick look and the supplier is still there, but they charge £2.80 GBP postage and there is no discount if you order more than one copy, they are called Dagwood_Books. |
Tango01 | 02 Jan 2016 11:18 p.m. PST |
Thanks also! Amicalement Armand |
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