Three Sips of Gin Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's famed Selous Scouts

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bax, Timothy, author.

Contributor:

Bax, Timothy.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic Books

Physical Description:

1 online resource (865 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown Helion & Company 2013.

Summary:

There is nothing that terrorized Russian and Chinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia's bush war in the 1970s more than the famed Selous Scouts. The very name of the unit struck fear into the very heart and soul of even the most battle-hardened guerillas. Too afraid to even whisper the name amongst themselves, they referred to soldiers of the unit simply as Skuzapu, or pickpockets. It was not for nothing that history has recorded the Selous Scouts Regiment as being one of the deadliest and most effective killing machines in modern counter-insurgency warfare. The Selous Scouts comprised speci

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of photographs; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Map; Prologue: A Most Worrisome Exposé; Chapter 1: A Case for the Prosecution; East Africa; Chapter 2: The Road; Magamba; Lushoto School; Chapter 3: Dar-es-Salaam; Mr. Deppetawalah's Villa; England; Chapter 4: Canada; Europe; Lumberjack; Chapter 5: London; The Atlantic; South Africa; Chapter 6: Recruit; Chapter 7: Trooper; Border Control; Chapter 8: An Officer I Wanted to Become; Chapter 9: An Officer I Became; Chapter 10: Subaltern Officer; Mukumbura; A Girl in my Soup; A Walk in the Dark

A Lady in the AtticChapter 11: Mozambique; A Port Too Many; Brush with Fire; Early Bird Catches the Worm; The Doctor and the Cane Rat; Chapter 12: An Unconventional Wisdom; Selection; The Regiment; Moses; Mechanized Raids; Chapter 13: Passage of Fire; Chapter 14: Matriarchic Matron; The Mess; A Rocky Engagement; Chapter 15: Interlude; Honeymoon; An Angry Brigadier; Chapter 16: Melting Pot; Third Sip of Gin; Chapter 17: Conduct Unbecoming; Betrayal; Chapter 18: Division of Cultures; Wild Coast; Chapter 19: White Mischief; Chapter 20: Farming Frolics; Chapter 21: Caravan of Camels

A Laborious UnionChapter 22: Monkey Business; Mikhail Kalashnikov; Where Danger Lurks; Post Scripta; eBooks Published by Helion & Company

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ISBN:

9781909982444

190998244X

OCLC:

880826359