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RHODESIA: PURSUIT OF THE KING by John O'Reilly Hard cover - dust cover slight torn at top

PURSUIT OF THE KING by John O’Reilly Stiff-soft cover – 188x130 mm – Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo 1970 1 st Edition 218 pages – index included – many b/w photos/illustrations – maps   V/Good cond – tightly bound – spine creased. (See also THE WHITE MEN SANG by Alexander Fullerton and THE DOWNFALL OF LOBENGULA by Wills & Collingridge)

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  RHODESIA 1933 - 40th Anniversary of Occupation of Matabeleland Bronze Medal During 1893 Matabeleland was invaded by troops of the British South Africa Company. King Lobengula of the Matabele fled the capital, Bulawayo. On 4 November 1893, Leander Starr Jameson declared Matabeleland to be under the rule of the B.S.A. Company and Cecil John Rhodes ordered that Bulawayo should be rebuilt for white settlement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Width = approx. 34 mm Weight = 17.3 grams ACTUAL PICTURES

THE WHITE MEN SANG by Alexander Fullerton Hard cover with d/wrapper – 203x140 mm – Peter Davies st Edition 216 pages – no index included V/Good cond – tightly bound – spotting/foxing of edges due to age. D/w V/Good – some tears – spotting on inside – price clipped. (See also PURSUIT OF THE KING by John O’Reilly and THE DOWNFALL OF LOBENGULA by Wills & Collingridge)

BRAND NEW AND UNREAD. Published in Pinetown South Africa by 30 Degrees South in 2013. This is the story of the pursuit of a dream. Spitfire PK350 is the only late-mark Spitfire, an F Mk 22, to have ever been restored to full flying status. She had no restrictions on her airframe and with four fully serviceable 20mm cannons, she was as good as the day she came off the production line in July 1945 near Birmingham, England.She first flew as a restored aircraft on 29 March 1980 at the hands of one John McVicar Jack Malloch. By then a legend in his adopted country, Rhodesia, Malloch had in 1977 been entrusted by the hierarchy of the Rhodesian Air Force to restore SR64, as she was then known. In two and half years, Jack Malloch and his trusted engineers, with critical help from the Rhodesian and South African air forces, completely restored SR64 to flying condition. The fact that she was fitted with a propeller made by a German company added a sweet irony to a project that had to contend with sanctions imposed by Britain, the original country of manufacture, and highlighted the enterprising spirit of the team. This was possible because Malloch, with the backing of the Rhodesian government, had built up a successful charter airfreight company that assumed different guises, depending on where it was operating, to bypass sanctions. Malloch's network thus facilitated his quest to restore and once again fly a Spitfire such as he had flown in the RAF during the Second World War.Some fascinating insights are revealed in this account. From the test pilot who first flew her as PK350 on 25 July 1945, the reader is taken on a journey through the aircraft's complete life, with the project's lead engineer and most of the surviving pilots who flew her gracing the story with their memories. For two years PK350 delighted those fortunate enough to see her fly, mostly around Salisbury (Harare) airport. Then, on what was planned to be its last flight, Malloch's Spitfire never returned to base.