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Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, a Memoir
Lindsay O´brien
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Description for Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, a Memoir
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21 b/w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJPL; BGHA; HBJH; HBWS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay `Kiwi' O'Brien's Bush War service from 1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit, the police professional anti-terrorist battalion, he served across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before joining the UANC political armies as trainer and advisor. Much has been written about the Army's elite units, but Support Unit's war record was mainly unknown during the conflict, and has faded into obscurity afterwards. Support Unit started poorly supplied and equipped, but the caliber of the men, mostly African, was second-to-none. Support Unit specialized in ... Read more
Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay `Kiwi' O'Brien's Bush War service from 1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit, the police professional anti-terrorist battalion, he served across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before joining the UANC political armies as trainer and advisor. Much has been written about the Army's elite units, but Support Unit's war record was mainly unknown during the conflict, and has faded into obscurity afterwards. Support Unit started poorly supplied and equipped, but the caliber of the men, mostly African, was second-to-none. Support Unit specialized in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Helion & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Solihull, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911512028
SKU
V9781911512028
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About Lindsay O´brien
The author was born and raised in New Zealand, joining the NZ Army at 16 in order to run away from home. Afterwards, he roamed around Queensland Australia on construction sites before heading off to London via Johannesburg. In South Africa he stopped over and hitchhiked around before heading up to Rhodesia, and subsequently found work managing a tobacco farm. ... Read more
Reviews for Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, a Memoir
This is an excellent first-hand account...provides a valuable insight in to why the Rhodesians lost in the end after so long.
Miniature Wargames - Paul Jackson
I remember the negotiations between the British Government and Ian Smith as if it were yesterday. This was a dark period in Rhodesian history, brought into stark reality by Lindsay ... Read more
Miniature Wargames - Paul Jackson
I remember the negotiations between the British Government and Ian Smith as if it were yesterday. This was a dark period in Rhodesian history, brought into stark reality by Lindsay ... Read more