Bush War Operator : Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond Bush War Operator : Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond

Bush War Operator : Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond

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Publisher Description

Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother or son called up in the defense 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.

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.

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
DK
Dennis Kleinman
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:01
hr min
RELEASED
2020
April 21
PUBLISHER
Tantor Media, Inc
SIZE
463
MB

Customer Reviews

lincoln76 ,

One Of THE Best Bush War Books

I have probably listened to this book three times because there is always a story that shocks me or amazes me every time I listen to it. The author is or seems very real/honest about everything these special operations guys are just a different kind of human. One of the best books I have read pertaining to the Rhodesian War.

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No context

The book is just random stories with no context or introduction. I was disappointed

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