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Buy The Regiment: The Real Story of the SAS - the First Fifty Years Michael Asher for R75.00

Buy The Regiment: The Real Story of the SAS (Paperback) Michael Asher for R65.00

A Walk Against The Stream takes a look at the experiences of a young national service officer in the Rhodesian army. This is a true story, encompassing all eighteen months the author spent at Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, facing enemy territory just across the Zambezi river in Zambia. Initially allocated to 4th platoon, 4 Independent company Rhodesia Regiment (RR) as a subaltern and later on as a 1st Lieutenant in support company 2RR, the story starts with the authors training and subsequent deployment to the operational area. The events that unfold contain interesting military encounters, with battles against the Zambian army and local terrorists clearly depicted. The style of writing flows easily and graphically, drawing the reader into a half forgotten world. But there is also another aspect to the story: the human side of it. It is an examination of the authors love of a country falling apart and the relationship that he forms with a local woman in the village; their love, hope and dreams snatched away by unfolding events. This is a riveting personal tale, interspersed with interesting facts and dozens of photographs. All the names and places are real, including the battle scenes with ZIPRA and the Zambian army. PAPERBACK, 364 pages with photos. FIRST PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2015 

Reconnaissance Regiment beret badge (Bullion wire type). VERY SCARCE. Difficult to find.......... Original. Bullion wire on maroon felt. This specific badge type is the UK manufactured badge that was supplied to SA Special Forces members. These badges were once-off issue. This specific badge type is the real thing and the only type that was "officially" supplied to the regiments. All other pre 1993 bullion wire types were privately made up by individuals. However, genuine bullion wire badge will slightly differ in stitch, because each badge were separately hand-stitched. But at the end, they will all have the same overall look. BUY AUTHENTIC / GENUINE ITEMS  ...  BUY WITH CONFIDENCE !!   Below is a photo of the same beret badge type & Infantry corps bar............

Reconnaissance Regiment beret badge (Bullion wire type). VERY SCARCE. Difficult to find.......... Original. Bullion wire on maroon felt. This specific badge type is the UK manufactured badge that was supplied to SA Special Forces members. These badges were once-off issue. This specific badge type is the real thing and the only type that was "officially" supplied to the regiments. All other pre 1993 bullion wire types were privately made up by individuals. NO extention for last minute bids at the end of the auction. BUY AUTHENTIC / GENUINE ITEMS  ...  BUY WITH CONFIDENCE !!   Below is a photo of the same beret badge type & Infantry corps bar............

Alan Taffy Brice, an indomitable former member of Britains elite 22-SAS Regiment, led a Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) secret assassination team in hostile Zambia comprising himself, Hugh Chuck Hind (also of 22-SAS) and Ian and Priscilla Sutherland, whose Zambian farm was used as their rear base. Their orders were to create divisions between the two Rhodesian dissident organisations, Joshua Nkomos ZAPU/ZIPRA (backed by Soviet Russia) and Robert Mugabes ZANU/ZANLA (backed by Red China), both rear-based in Lusaka. This true story tells how for six years they led both dissident parties by their noses in a bewildering dance of death and destruction, successfully leading each to believe the other was responsible for their woes.  They blew up, machine gunned and rocketed ZIPRAs Lusaka HQ four times and ZANLAs Lusaka HQ twice. To stir Zambias disenchantment with hosting the dissidents they bombed both the Central Post Office and the Times of Zambias and blasted an imperial stone lion off its plinth at the High Court leaving obvious clues behind them. When President Nyerere of Tanzania openly criticised Joshua Nkomo, they bombed his Lusaka Embassy in retaliation. In March 1975 they eliminated ZANUs Chairman, Herbert Chitepo with a car bomb. Certain his death was caused by internal divisions, President Kaunda arrested its top leaders and kicked the organisation out of Zambia this halted the war in Rhodesia for more than a year. In 1976 Brice killed ZAPUs number two man, Jason Moyo, with a parcel bomb. Brice survived the war and died recently allowing his own name and the real names of active participants and much else to be revealed for the first time. Chuck Hind was killed while on an operation and Ian Sutherland was captured by Zambian security forces. He spent five years in a hell hole that was a Zambian prison as a result. Paperback, 320 pages. Published March 2011