Publisher's hardcover binding with pictorial dust jacket.
176pp. Illustrations in profusion.
Binding sound. Internally clean. Dust jacket with mild age-associated edge wear.
'Selous Scouts - A Pictorial Account is a history in words and pictures of the Selous Scouts of Rhodesia, a special force regiment with few equals and none that surpass it, which was formed in 1973 and subjected to overnight disbandment on the takeover by the Marxist orientated Robert Mugabe and his ZANU party after the British supervised elections in 1980.
Its brief on formation was a dramatic one: . . . the clandestine elimination of terrorists and terrorism both within and outside of Rhodesia . . .
Their success in carrying out this task can be judged by the fact that Combined Operations, Rhodesia, officially credited them with either directly or indirectly accounting for 68% of all terrorists killed within Rhodesia during the war.
The book contains nearly five hundred colour and black and white illustrations and photographs from the war days, many of them official photographs or from personal collections which have not been published before, as well as a text of some 70,000 words telling the story of the war from its first murmurings in 1957 until the end.' - editor's note
- Jacket Condition: Very Good
- Binding Condition: Near Fine
- Size: 33,5 X 25,5cm
