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- African Tears: The Zimbabwe Land Invasions - by Catherine Buckle. African Tears is a harrowing story of bravery, human decency, and conviction in the face of overwhelming tyranny and cruelty. Ms. Buckle, regardless of her politics, was tormented, intimidated, and lived in fear for her life.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/1919874275/
- All the Way Home - All the Way Home is the exhilarating and intensely moving story of a wildlife sanctuary in the heart of Zimbabwe’s ancient, majestic Matobo Hills. It is a testament to one family’s passion for Africa’s wildlife and their conviction that nothing can change
URL: http://www.eaststreet.com.au/
- Assignment Selous Scouts - Inside story of a Rhodesian Special B - A no punches pulled account of the final years of the Rhodesian Bush War as experienced by a Special Branch liaison officer with the Selous Scouts
URL: http://www.galago.co.za/CAT1_019.htm
- Battle for Rhodesia - by Douglas Reed. Written in 1967 this book provides political arguments favoring Rhodesia and its fight against encroaching communist insurgencies. Reed argued that escalating tensions in southern Africa signaled the beginnings of another world war.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0815951027/
- Beloved African by Jill Baker - a wonderful colonial love story from 1935 to 1964 - the hopes of a Rhodesian born headmaster trying to introduce a disciplined, responsibilities over rights, education to the Africans. And the subsequent heartbreak.
URL: http://www.belovedafrican.com/
- Britain's Rebel Air Force : The War from the Air in Rhodesia - by Roy Conyers Nesbit, Dudley Cowderoy, Andrew Thomas, Andy Thomas (Contributor)An excellent history and tactical overview of the Royal Rhodesian Air Force and a thoroughly researched and informative title.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/1902304055/
- Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War - A richly textured memoir in which an ordinary troopie grapples with the unique dilemmas presented by an extraordinary period in history.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/1869140052/
- Death in the Long Grass - by Peter Hathaway Capstick. Africa's best-known professional hunter presents some of his most incredible adventures while hunting deadly prey on the Dark Continent. Witty and suspenseful, these tales are a heart-racing excursion through Africa.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0312186134/
- Death in the Silent Places - By Peter Hathaway Capstick. With his characteristic color and flair, Capstick recalls the extraordinary careers of famous hunters like Patterson, Corbett, W.D.M. Bell, Siemel and more.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0312186185/
- Fighting Vehicles and Weapons of Rhodesia 1965-80 - by Peter G Locke and Peter DF Cooke. This book is the best of its type published to date. It covers the amazingly wide range of armoured vehicles, including those using the railway system that were put together in Rhodesia during the years of conflict.
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- From the Barrel of a Gun : The USA and the War Against Zimbabwe - by Gerald Horne. The first comprehensive account of American involvement in the war against Zimbabwe.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0807825891/
- Last Ivory Hunter : The Saga of Wally Johnson - by Peter Hathaway Capstick. One of the greatest living writers of African hunting and safari experience, Peter Hathaway Capstick tells the story of Walter Walker Johnson's life. Gold prospector, elephant hunter, professional guide.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0312000480/
- Lessons for Contemporary Counterinsurgencies - by Bruce Hoffman, Jennifer Taw, David Arnold. This is a textbook for how to fight insurgents, full of practical information, it discusses how a tiny army of an embargoed and isolated country effectively defeated a long lasting marxist insurgent movement.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0833011235/
- No Mean Soldier - by Peter McAleese. An interesting account of a soldier who has been involved in actual combat for almost 20 years of his life. This career has spanned the British Airborne and Special Forces, Rhodesian and South African Special Forces and as a Mercernary
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0304356840/
- One Commando - Rhodesian Light Infantry - A self-published book by Dick Gledhill. A gripping, semi-autobiographical account of the elite Rhodesian Light Infantry during the last years of white rule, by a man who served in the ranks of its One Commando.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/1919874356/
- Pamwe Chete - LTC Ron Reid-Daly has written a superb book on the finest killing machine in Africa, the Selous Scouts. LTC Reid-Daly was the founder and commanding officer of this psuedo counter-insurgency force.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/191987433X/
- Rhodesia Medal Roll - Containing the names of over 12,000 recipients, this definitive book is the ultimate compendium of Rhodesian honours and awards gazetted between 1970 and 1981. Fully indexed by surname, it even contains 1,700 previously unpublished decorations.
URL: http://www.jeppestown.com/rhodesiamedalroll/index.html
- Rhodesia Medal Roll - The Rhodesia Medal Roll - the first comprehensive roll of recipients of the Rhodesian gazetted honours and decorations awarded from 1970 to the introduction of the Zimbabwean honours system in 1981.
Perfect for medal collectors and dealers, historians
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0955393604/
- SAS Rhodesia - Our new book on the Rhodesians the Special Air Service is now available ex Durban. Hundreds of new previously unseen photos plus images of uniforms, badges, medals etc.
URL: http://www.dandy.co.za/
- Survival Course - by C. J. Cocks
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0620241152/
- The Bulawayo Cookery Book - First published in 1909, Zimbabwe's earliest cookery book will entrance you with over 230 recipes for African delicacies
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0955393620/
- The Bulawayo Cookery Book - Rhodesia's first cookery book - over 230 recipes from 1909, illustrated with charming period advertisements.
URL: http://www.jeppestown.com/bulawayo/index.html
- The Great Betrayal : The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith - by Ian Douglas Smith. An eminently readable account of how a fine country and people were surrendered to gangsterism by cowards in the US and UK, and by deluded fools in South Africa.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/1857821769/
- The Winds of Havoc : A Memoir of Adventure and Destruction - by Adelino Serras Pires, Fiona Claire Capstick. A rather different portrait of Africa emerges in Serras Pires' memoir. Born in Portugal but raised in Mozambique, the author became a major safari organizer, attracting royalty and celebrities from Europe.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/0312270038/
- The Zulus and Matabele : Warrior Nations - by Glen Lyndon Dodds. Tracing the history of the Matabele nation and how they broke away from the mighty Zulus.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/1854093819/
- They Served Africa with Wings - A wonderful collection of photographs and stories of aviation in Central Africa between 1920 and 1980. By John House and Mitch Stirling
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- Thundering Smoke - The history of the former Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe Railways by one of Zimbabwe's most well-known, now late railway writers and photographers.
URL: http://www.sable-publishing-house.com
- Tracks Across the Veldt - Memoirs of a former Rhodesia Railways employee, recalling the golden days of rail transport in that country 1950-76
URL: http://www.woodfieldpublishing.com/contents/en-uk/p173.html
- Wet Breams - An antidote for farmers who lost their farms to the government. Guaranteed to make you laugh! Contact William Taylor [kananura@worldnet.att.net]
URL: mailto:kananura@worldnet.att.net
- What Happens After Mugabe? - by Geoff Hill. What will it take to rebuild Zimbabwe? This gripping, incisive book discusses many relevant issues and asks serious questions.
URL: http://astore.amazon.com/rhodesiansworldw/detail/1770071024/
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