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Across Africa in the post-1956 era, the aspirations of African nationalists to secure power were boosted and quickly realized by the British, French and Belgian hasty retreat from empire. The Portuguese, Southern Rhodesian and South African governments, however, stood firm and would be challenged by their African nationalists. Influenced by the Communist bloc, these nationalists adopted the 'Armed Struggle'. In the case of Rhodesia, the Zimbab...

Startling in its innovation and daringly suicidal, Operation Dingo was not only the Fireforce concept writ large but the prototype for all the major Rhodesian airborne attacks on the external bases of Rhodesian African nationalist insurgents in the neighbouring territories of Mozambique and Zambia until such operations ceased in late 1979.Fireforce as a military concept is a 'vertical envelopment' of the enemy (first practised by SAS paratroop...

The militarily acclaimed Fireforce concept

¿Once in a lifetime comes a book which must force a total shift in the thinking person¿s perception of an epoch, and of all the prominent characters who featured in it¿ This is the best informed book that has yet been produced on Zimbabwe.¿¿Michael Hartnack, SpectatorGiven the headlong rush of the Macmillan government in Britain in 1959 to be rid of its colonies, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) should have been the first African colony in line for ind...

Founded on 35 years of research into o the post-1945 Anglo-Rhodesian history, this book complements Richard Wood's The Welensky Papers: A History of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: 1953-1963 (1983) and So Far and No Further! Rhodesia's bid for independence during the retreat from empire: 1959-1965 (2005). Of So Far, Michael Hartnack wrote that 'Once in a lifetime comes a book which must force a total shift in the thinking person's pe...

Across Africa in the post-1956 era, the aspirations of African nationalists to secure power were boosted and quickly realised by the hasty retreat of the British, French and Belgians from the empire. The Portuguese, Southern Rhodesian and South African governments, however, stood firm and would be challenged by their African nationalists, influenced by the Communist bloc, these nationalists adopted the 'Armed Struggle'. In the case of Rhodesia...

Fireforce 'Writ Large' - Airborne Assault in Mozambique.