The compelling, brutal but true account of Chris Cocks’ service
in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, during Zimbabwe’s
bitter 'Bush War’ of the ’70s ‘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.
While estimates of enemy casualties vary, there seems little doubt
that the RLI accounted for at least 12,000 ZANLA and ZIPRA
guerrillas.
New in card cover - 320pp, Colour
& b/w illustrations
An account of the French defeat in Indo China describing the
eight year conflict in which French forces in Laos, Cambodia and
Vietnam suffered a staggering defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese
communist nationalists - the Vietminh. At the time this was a new
kind of war, a war without fronts against a mobile enemy that could
seek sanctuary and help from a sympathetic population. A first hand
account of the tactics used by the Vietminh.
LESSONS IN DISASTER: MCGEORGE
BUNDY AND THE PATH TO WAR IN VIETNAM
by Gordon M Goldstein
In the last years of his life the former US National Security
Adviser McGeorge Bundy decided to revisit the role he played in
leading the nation into the Vietnam War as a counsellor to
Presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson. In this original
and provocative work the author draws on his prodigious research
as well as interviews he conducted with Bundy before his death in
1996 to distill the essential lessons of America's involvement in
Vietnam.
The German siege and Soviet defence of Leningrad in World War
II was an epic struggle. The author provides a military history of
the conflict waged beyond the city's borders. One of the first
major Soviet cities threatened by the German Blitzkrieg, Leningrad
was as much a symbolic target as it was a strategic one for Adolf
Hitler, who fully expected the birthplace of the Russian
Revolution to be reduced to rubble quickly and with ease. The Red
Army's ferocious defence of the city made that impossible.
New in d/w - 646pp, Tables, maps
and illustrations
Book Club Associates, 2004
Book Club edition. No
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