THE RHODESIAN BUSH WAR.
It was a ferocious guerrilla warfare campaign between the regular and elite units of the Rhodesian Army doing battle against
Communist-backed terrorist groups in the valleys, jungles, and bush country of Rhodesia, Mozambique, and Zambia. Warrant Officer Dennis Croukamp fought in the conflict from its beginnings in the 1960s to the very end in 1979, and his combat memoir is an extraordinary chronicle of that bitter struggle from inside some of the most highly regarded elite combat units to ever take the field.
In The Bush War in Rhodesia, Croukamp chronicles his eventful service with the Rhodesian Regular Army, the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), and the Selous Scouts Reconnaissance Troop as he took part in cross-border reconnaissance operations, HALO jumps behind enemy lines, urban ops in the townships of Salisbury, raids, ambushes, demolition missions, prisoner snatches, and more. He excelled in combat, earning Rhodesia's third highest award, the Bronze Cross, for gallantry under fire; becoming the first warrant officer in the history of the RLI to command a Troop; and surviving an epic, six-day E&E from behind enemy lines. And through it all, Croukamp brought along a camera, providing a remarkable visual documentation of this little-known war.
This searingly honest, action-packed memoir is sure to become a classic, ground-level account of the bloody "bush wars" of Africa.
A PALADIN PRESS BOOK
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