Delta Scout - Couverture souple

Anthony Trethowan

 
9780097819211: Delta Scout
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0097819212 ISBN 13 : 9780097819211
Editeur : 30 Degrees South Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Delta Scout was the call sign for Tony Trethowans Ground Coverage stick during the Rhodesian bush war of the late seventies. This is the story of an ordinary policeman, a young man who signed up with the British South Africa Police as a raw 18 year old and who was to serve eight years with that fine force. As a young Patrol Officer, he was to experience rural life in remote stations in the bush of Matabeleland. He embraced the experience and learned Sindebele within a few months. The book is richly interspersed with anecdotes of wild frontier lifeof rowdy prospectors, obstreperous farmers, maverick hunters and bizarre eccentrics. He deals with a wide array of crimes and incidentsfrom murder, tribal suicide, sorcery, robbery and drunkenness to horrific vehicle accidents. But as the bush war intensifies, Tony finds himself more and more involved in paramilitary operations. Ground Coverage was a BSAP intelligence-gathering unit operating literally on the ground in the rural areas. Known by his enemy, Nkomos ZIPRA guerrillas, as Baleka, or he who runs hither and thither because of his propensity for rapidly covering vast areas, alone in his beaten-up police Land Rover, the second part of the book deals with the authors conversion from civilian policeman to full-blooded counter-insurgency operator in an African guerrilla war. Told with a sensitivity and pathos that is rare in military memoirs, Delta Scout is a brutally honest, compelling account of innocence lost.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Delta Scout was the call sign for Tony Trethowans Ground Coverage stick during the Rhodesian bush war of the late seventies. This is the story of an ordinary policeman, a young man who signed up with the British South Africa Police as a raw 18 year old and who was to serve eight years with that fine force. As a young Patrol Officer, he was to experience rural life in remote stations in the bush of Matabeleland. He embraced the experience and learned Sindebele within a few months. The book is richly interspersed with anecdotes of wild frontier lifeof rowdy prospectors, obstreperous farmers, maverick hunters and bizarre eccentrics. He deals with a wide array of crimes and incidentsfrom murder, tribal suicide, sorcery, robbery and drunkenness to horrific vehicle accidents. But as the bush war intensifies, Tony finds himself more and more involved in paramilitary operations. Ground Coverage was a BSAP intelligence-gathering unit operating literally on the ground in the rural areas. Known by his enemy, Nkomos ZIPRA guerrillas, as Baleka, or he who runs hither and thither because of his propensity for rapidly covering vast areas, alone in his beaten-up police Land Rover, the second part of the book deals with the authors conversion from civilian policeman to full-blooded counter-insurgency operator in an African guerrilla war. Told with a sensitivity and pathos that is rare in military memoirs, Delta Scout is a brutally honest, compelling account of innocence lost.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
30 Degrees South Publishers
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0097819212
ISBN 13 
9780097819211
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible