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Out of action / Chris Cocks.
LIBRA DT2984.C63 A3 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cocks, Chris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cocks, Chris.
- Soldiers--Zimbabwe--History.
- Soldiers.
- History.
- Zimbabwe--History--Chimurenga War, 1966-1980--Personal narratives.
- Zimbabwe.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : 30° South, 2008.
- Contents:
- Part 1 War 1979-1980
- Map of Rhodesia / Zimbabwe 14
- Map of the Chipinga / Melsetter eastern border area 15
- Map of Middle Sabi 16
- Chapter 1 We come to the valley 18
- Chapter 2 Across the Sabi 26
- Chapter 3 The killing of Peter and Elias 44
- Chapter 4 Rocket and mortar attack 61
- Chapter 5 Old fossils 75
- Chapter 6 Zen and the Matchless 85
- Chapter 7 Sugar in a jenny 93
- Chapter 8 Under the Five Roses sign 105
- Chapter 9 Of convoys and cookies 126
- Chapter 10 Not before my next birthday 137
- Chapter 11 Chicks 'n' ducks 'n' geese better scurry 147
- Chapter 12 Iain, Lord Carrington and Bill Bailey 161
- Chapter 13 The pungwe 169
- Chapter 14 The last waltz 182
- Part 2 Peace 1980-1995
- Chapter 15 Transition 196
- Chapter 16 Bad mtagati 201
- Chapter 17 The year of the Mkorekore 211
- Chapter 18 Going nowhere slowly 240
- Chapter 19 Piano wire 250
- Chapter 20 Amor fati 268.
- Notes:
- First published in 1999 as : Survival course. Sequel to: Fireforce : one man's war in the Rhodesian Light Infantry.
- ISBN:
- 9781920143206
- 1920143203
- OCLC:
- 223851584
- Publisher Number:
- 99943126509
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