Fireforce: One Man's War in The Rhodesian Light Infantry

Cocks, Chris

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Langue : anglais

Edité par 30 Degrees South Publishers, 2009

0958489092 / 9780958489096

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4th ed. Clean, unmarked interior text, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Softcover is clean and bright, shows a bit of edge, corner, shelf wear, no rips, chips, stains or tears. Binding solid, square. 30 degree South Publishers. 2006. Ships quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: The horror of guerrilla warfare in Africa Fireforce is the compelling, brutal but true account of Chris Cocks's service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, during Zimbabwe's bitter civil war of the '70s a war that came to be known almost innocuously as 'the bush war'. 'Fireforce', a tactic of total airborne envelopment, was developed and perfected by the RLI, together with the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian Air Force. Fireforce became the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces in their struggle against the overwhelming tide of the Communist-trained and equipped ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas. The combat strain on a fighting soldier was almost unbelievable, for the Rhodesians, who were always desperately short of ground troops, were sometimes obliged to parachute the same men into action into as many as three enemy contacts a day. While estimates of enemy casualties vary, there seems little doubt that the RLI accounted for at least 12,000 ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas but not without cost. Fireforce is not for the squeamish. Although it has been written with unforgettable pathos and humour, it tells of face-to-face combat in the bush and death at point-blank range. It is a book which does nothing to glorify or glamorize war, for as Chris Cocks found at such a young age, war is merely a catalogue of suffering, destruction and death. Fireforce has been described by critics as being to the Rhodesian War what All Quiet On The Western Front was to World War I and Dispatches was to Vietnam. Read it . it will be an experience you never forget.…

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Titre
Fireforce: One Man's War in The Rhodesian Light Infantry
Auteur
Cocks, Chris
Éditeur
30 Degrees South Publishers
Année de publication
2009
État de l'article
VERY GOOD
Reliure
Softcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0958489092
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780958489096
Édition
4th Edition.
Poids de l'article
43 onces
Dimensions
8x5x1
Catalogues du vendeur
Africa, Memoir, Military History

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