Bound for Africa : Cold War fight along the Zambezi / by Douglass H. Hubbard, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hubbard, Douglass H., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa, Southern--Description and travel.

Africa, Southern.

Africa, Southern--History--1899-1975.

Africa, Southern--History--1975-.

Zimbabwe--Foreign relations--1965-1980.

Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe--History--Chimurenga War, 1966-1980.

Hubbard, Douglass H., 1945---Travel.

Hubbard, Douglass H.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the story of the author's introduction to Africa at a time when much of the continent was in the grips of Cold War skirmishes between the free world and the communist forces of China and the Soviet Union. Frayed from three years of service during the Vietnam War, Hubbard traveled to Africa intending to become a rural policeman in a quiet area of what was then Rhodesia. The counterinsurgency war flared soon after, a conflict that bore many of the same characteristics of the country he had just left. This is a very personal story of the frustrations he faced and of the attitudes and spir

Contents:

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction by John P. Cann, PhD; 1. Africa Introduced; Vietnam Fini; 2. To Africa; 3. Policing Rhodesia; 4. War Comes; 5. The Other War ; 6. Mozambique Falls: Border Tensions Rise; 7. In the Field ; 8. Seeing Rhodesia; 9. Unexpected Events; Epilogue; Glossary ; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 12, 2013).

ISBN:

1-61251-421-9

OCLC:

855969812