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Bush War Operator - Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond (Paperback)
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Bush War Operator - Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond (Paperback)
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From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of
the Chimanimani Mountains in Rhodesia, from the bars in Port St
Johns in the Transkei to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa,
this is the story of one man's fight against terror, and his
conscience. Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s
would have had a father, husband, brother or son called up in the
defence of the war-torn, landlocked little country. A few of these
brave men would have been members of the elite and secretive unit
that struck terror into the hearts of the ZANLA and ZIPRA
guerrillas infiltrating the country at that time - the Selous
Scouts. These men were highly trained and disciplined, with skills
to rival the SAS, Navy Seals and the US Marines, although their
dress and appearance were wildly unconventional: civilian clothing
with blackened, hairy faces to resemble the very people they were
fighting against. Twice decorated - with the Member of the Legion
of Merit (MLM) and the Military Forces' Commendation (MFC) - Andrew
Balaam was a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and later the
Selous Scouts, for a period spanning twelve years. This is his
honest and insightful account of his time as a pseudo operator. His
story is brutally truthful, frightening, sometimes humorous and
often sad. In later years, after Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, he was
involved with a number of other former Selous Scouts in the
attempted coups in the Ciskei, a South African homeland, and
Lesotho, an independent nation, whose only crimes were supporting
the African National Congress. Training terrorists, or as they
preferred to be called, 'liberation armies', to conduct a war of
terror on innocent civilians, was the very thing he had spent the
last ten years in Rhodesia fighting against. This is the true,
untold story of these failed attempts at governmental overthrows.
--- "The finest account I've read on the Selous Scouts. Without any
kind of glorification whatsoever, Andy Balaam tells it like it
was-the fear, the terror, the adrenaline highs of combat in the
bush-and it is one of the first accounts to actually describe in
depth the workings of the Scouts famed`pseudo ops'. " Chris Cocks,
bestselling author of Fireforce: One Man's War in the Rhodesian
Light Infantry
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