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Bush War Rhodesia - 1966-1980 (Paperback)
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Bush War Rhodesia - 1966-1980 (Paperback)
Series: Africa@War
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Loot Price R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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It has been over four 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.
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