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 40 YEARS OLD - SIGNED - CLEAN, NEAT COVER. POSTAGE WILL BE R30 REGISTERED FOR SOUTH AFRICA AND R55 REGISTERED WORLDWIDE. I DO COMBINE LOTS FOR POSTAGE PURPOSES, THERE IS NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR ADDITIONAL ITEMS.    

This all new work by accomplished military historian Alexandre Binda, former paymaster to the Greys Scouts, tables the remarkable story of Rhodesias mounted infantry, the Greys Scouts. Working closely with the last commanding officer, squadron commanders and a whole host of regimental personalities, all of whom have given The Equus Men their unequivocal support Binda has enjoyed unparalled access to thousands of pages of archival documents and many hundreds of previously unpublished photographs. Here, he has traced the Greys from their early origins in the Matabele Rebellion of 1896, where an unassuming Englishman, the Honourable George Grey, found himself originating a body of horseman named the Bulawayo Field Force, through to the formation of the Animal Transport Unit (ATU) which went on to become the Mounted Infantry Unit (MIU). With the skill of a practiced narrator, Binda takes the reader through these early days to the establishment of the Greys Scouts in the Rhodesian Army order of battle in 1976. Deployed to great effect during the bitter Rhodesian Bush War of the late 1960s 1970s, the mounted operations conducted by the Greys are succinctly and clearly detailed. Some of the contacts related make for astonishing reads and with the lively, vibrant, text one can almost feel the steaming sweat of rider and mount; sense the pounding adrenaline; hear the thundering hooves as a fearful enemy is pursued to battles inevitable conclusion. Suffice to say, The Equus Men makes for an engaging read. Trained and utilised as mounted infantry as opposed to cavalry, the Greys Scouts saw exceptional success in the field. Lightly equipped, they were able to cover great distances at speed, live off the veldt with minimal support and through shock action, quickly engage and destroy insurgent forces. Originally a regular formation, the Greys Scouts were augmented by Territorial and National Service soldiers as the conflict progressed and by 1980, when hostilities ceased, the Regiment numbered some 600 soldiers, both men and women, black and white. With its informative text and rich profusion of photographs, The Equus Men is a stunning tribute to the equestrian and fighting prowess of the Greys Scouts. It is a remarkable story and one that is ever more relevant, given recent mounted and pack horse operations conducted by British and US special forces in Afghanistan. Hardcover, 288 pages with  approx 300 colour & b/w photos, 4 maps. First published  1 February 2016.

On offer here is a Second edition of Selous Scouts, Top Secret War The dust cover is torn in places, but the hard cover is in VERY GOOD Nic! Please see Photos.

1982 Scouts of Transkei FDC First Day Cover For Condition see images below. I combine postage Please quote order number or name when making a payment    

Buy Anglo Boer War Cover: Driscolls Scouts, Spr. H Smith, C Squad, Springfontein for R461.00

Buy 1977 South-West Africa Boy Scouts Commemorative Cover for R6.00

 SELOUS SCOUTS - A PICTORIAL ACCOUNT by PETER STIFF This is a very large, heavy book of 176 pages. The book is in good condition but has some foxing on the dust cover and first few pages. There is slight wear on the outer edges of the hard cover. •The postage on this item will be R80. 00 within S. A. (with tracking) •If outside South Africa please contact me re payment & postage before bidding. •I do not have a PayPal facility. •Please email any queries. •If you think the description in my listing is incorrect, please email me. •The photograph you are viewing in this listing is the actual item for sale.  

Staffa 1979 Scouts of the World perf set of 2 values (El Salvador & Faroe Is) on cover with first day cancel

Buy BOP: 11.3.1985: SPECIAL COVER 1.32.2 - CENTENARY OF MAFIKENG/CENTENARY OF SCOUTS for R2.00

 RHODESIA - SELOUS SCOUTS - A PICTORIAL ACCOUNT BY PETER STIFF This is a large hard covered book with dust cover. (32 cm x 25 cm, 176 pages) A great production with some brilliant photographs. The book is in good condition, front and back boards are scuffed and there is some foxing on the first few pages. •The postage on this item will be R60.00 within S. A. (Registered with tracking) •If outside South Africa please contact me re payment & postage before bidding. •I do not have a PayPal facility. •Please email any queries. •If you think the description in my listing is incorrect, please email me. •The photograph you are viewing in this listing is the actual item for sale.

 RHODESIA - SELOUS SCOUTS - A PICTORIAL ACCOUNT BY PETER STIFF This is a large hard covered book with dust cover. (32 cm x 25 cm, 176 pages) A great production with some brilliant photographs. The book is in good condition, front and back boards are scuffed and there is some foxing on the first few pages. •The postage on this item will be R60.00 within S. A. (with tracking) •If outside South Africa please contact me re payment & postage before bidding. •I do not have a PayPal facility. •Please email any queries. •If you think the description in my listing is incorrect, please email me. •The photograph you are viewing in this listing is the actual item for sale.

    OPPORTUNITY!!!   Peter Baxter Selous Scouts Pinetown 2011, first edition, soft cover, large format, lots of illustrations, 64 pages in excellent second-hand condition POSTAGE OVERSEAS R120.00 (registered airmail) or R80.00 (registered surface)   Buy bulk to save on postage. Kindly have a look to my related books on Africana, South West Africa (Südwestafrika, Suid-Wes Afrika), SWA, DOA, German East Africa, ZAR, National Party, vryheidsoorlog, Rhodesia, Verwoerd, Voprster, Botha, ANC, SACP, Mandela, terrorism, apartheid, BBB, bush war, RLI SAS bush War Zambia Kariba  

SELOUS SCOUTS. Rhodesian War - A Pictorial Account Peter Stiff Galago Publishing, Alberton, Aug 1984 Hard cover with dust jacket. Condition Fine. 175 pp ISBN 0 947020 06 3

My Reference: 1410CC Shipping: Medium Condition: Please judge the condition from the scan Condition: Crisp and Clean Catalogue:  Tags: Commemorative Cover Boy Scouts Padvinders Pfadfinders Windhoek JG Strijdom Airport 

Publisher: Galago Books - 2006 Format: Softcover (360 pages) Book condition: Good. Previous owner's name / date inscribed inside front cover.  Slight age discoloration throughout. Postage cost: Post Office - Standard postal rate (tracked) R45 OR PostNet2PostNet Courier Fee R99

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Publisher: Galago Books - 2006 Format: Softcover (360 pages) Book condition: Good. Previous owner's name / date inscribed inside front cover.  Slight age discoloration throughout. Postage cost: Post Office - Standard postal rate (tracked) R50 OR PostNet2PostNet Courier Fee R99

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Publisher: Galago Books - 2006 Format: Softcover (360 pages) Book condition: Good. Previous owner's name / date inscribed inside front cover.  Slight age discoloration throughout. Postage cost: Post Office - Standard postal rate (tracked) R55 OR PostNet2PostNet Courier Fee R99

Publisher: Galago Books - 2006 Format: Softcover (360 pages) Book condition: Good. Previous owner's name / date inscribed inside front cover.  Slight age discoloration throughout. Postage cost: Post Office - Standard postal rate (tracked) R57 OR PostNet2PostNet Courier Fee R99

Hard cover Book in a very good condition, has an inscription on the front page, was obviously a gift. Can be collected in Lyttleton or I can post - buyer pays postage and packaging. Rob 0728197850- NO WHATSAPP. My daughter places my ads so she will respond if you respond to the ad via the internet.

  Uniforms of the Security Forces of Rhodesia - Limited Edition Numbered 113 of 500 Exact images of the item/s on Auction: Title:  UNIFORMS OF THE SECURITY FORCES OF RHODESIA Publisher:  Musketeer Press, Publication Date:  1979  Binding:  Hard Cover Elephant Hide Illustrator:  LAIRD, DAVID J. Book Condition: Excellent Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase as issued Edition:  First Limited Edition no 113 of R500 Book Type:  Coffee Table Book. ULTRA RARE Limited Edition of 500 copies: Numbered (113) and signed by the artist and publisher. Black elephant hide cover with gilt pressing of Rhodesia's Coat of Arms. No pagination but consists of 31 colored plates, each preceded by the Unit's name and badge and a full page history of the Unit (see examples) - Included are the RLI, Selous Scouts, SAS, Grey Scouts, Armoured Car Reg, Womens Service, Internal Affairs, Rhodesian Regiment, Defense Regiment, 1 Psychological Ops Unit, Education Corps, Guard Force, RAR, Intel Corps, Engineers, Chaplains, Medical, Pay, Army Services, BSAP, Rhodesian Corps of the Artillery, Signals. Military Police, The Airforce, and The Rhodesian Airforce,  In front is a 2pg spread of the portraits of the 5 Commanders of Combined Operations, headed by Lieut General G P Walls (ref photo): Size: 436x24p6mm and weighs over 3kgs   Condition: Please keep in mind that this book is 38 years old  - Very Minor spots on Elephant hide cover  - Very Minor foxing on first 2 and last 2 pages  - No tears, marks or inscriptions other than the author and artist signature  - From a collectors point of view its in an excellent condition  Registered Mail @ R 55.00 (Combine at no extra cost) Postnet to Postnet @ R 100.00 (Combine at no extra cost) Please have a look at all our other items.

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2006, reprinted. Soft cover; 608 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound; neat and clean. Minor wear at corners of cover. Over 1kg. This is a study of South African military operations during the apartheid years. It deals with all the top secret raids by Special Forces into surrounding African states, the political dynamics which led to them and the turbulent history of the times. This account tells not only the story of South Africa's Special Forces, it has also been described as the most important and frank history of South Africa itself during the apartheid years. Not only does it deal with military operations but it also explains the political dynamics that prompted them. It is wide ranging and covers the first counter-insurgency operations in Namibia in 1966, a commando raid on Dare-es-Salaam, the Fox Street Siege, South Africa's intervention into Angola in 1975 and subsequent pull-out, the rise of insurgency in Mozambique, South Africa's re-entry into Angola, strikes against SWAPO bases in Zambia, the training and assistance to UNITA, the fight against ZANLA and ZIPRA in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and how the Recces staffed Rhodesia's "D" Squadron SAS, the fall of Rhodesia, how the SAS and Selous Scouts were reformed as Recce units in South Africa, the selection and training of special forces, the raid against the ANC at Matola in Mozambique, South African assistance to RENAMO and Recce operations in Mozambique, Lesotho, Cabinda, Botswana and Zambia. It also deals in detail with the final days of apartheid South Africa and explains how close the country was to a right-wing coup d'etat.

The Covert War - Peter Stiff - Galago - 2004 - Hard cover with dust cover in good, clean and tight condition.   This is the detailed history of the elite policing unit operated by the South African forces on its Namibian border during the 1980s. In 1978, the counter insurgency war on the Angolan/SWA Namibian border was going badly for the South Africans. SWAPO was gaining the upper hand, so the South Africans decided to organise an elite commando-security unit based on the famed Rhodesian Selous Scouts. The unit was handed the Top Secret Project Koevoet ("crowbar") to provide operational intelligence by capturing & interrogating insurgents, but its commander came to realise that Namibia was different to the Rhodesian situation. So, the team reverted to basic police work, building informer networks, recruiting black police officers and skilled trackers. In its ten year existence, Koevoet fought in 1,615 encounters and took 3,225 prisoners - the equivalent of almost six battalions of troops. But, after heroically repelling SWAPO's invasion of Namibia in April 1989 (under direct authority from the United Nations) the unit was ignominiously disbanded and its black members disgracefully abandoned to take their chances at the hands of their former SWAPO enemies.  

1999, reprinted. Hard cover with dust cover; 608 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound and neat. Over 1kg. This is a study of South African military operations during the apartheid years. It deals with all the top secret raids by Special Forces into surrounding African states, the political dynamics which led to them and the turbulent history of the times. This account tells not only the story of South Africa's Special Forces, it has also been described as the most important and frank history of South Africa itself during the apartheid years. Not only does it deal with military operations but it also explains the political dynamics that prompted them. It is wide ranging and covers the first counter-insurgency operations in Namibia in 1966, a commando raid on Dare-es-Salaam, the Fox Street Siege, South Africa's intervention into Angola in 1975 and subsequent pull-out, the rise of insurgency in Mozambique, South Africa's re-entry into Angola, strikes against SWAPO bases in Zambia, the training and assistance to UNITA, the fight against ZANLA and ZIPRA in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and how the Recces staffed Rhodesia's "D" Squadron SAS, the fall of Rhodesia, how the SAS and Selous Scouts were reformed as Recce units in South Africa, the selection and training of special forces, the raid against the ANC at Matola in Mozambique, South African assistance to RENAMO and Recce operations in Mozambique, Lesotho, Cabinda, Botswana and Zambia. It also deals in detail with the final days of apartheid South Africa and explains how close the country was to a right-wing coup d'etat.    

as new.....Ed Bird a SB operative at Beitbridge tells his story. Excellent read. hard cover. Most of the facts are taken from actual Special Branch Logs which makes all the difference. The Author was decorated twice and was attached to the Selous Scouts for part of his Service.  

2006. Fourth edition. Soft cover; 306 pages.  Very good condition. Under 1kg. Fireforce is the compelling, brutal but true account of Chris Cocks’ service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, during Zimbabwe’s bitter civil war of the ’70s—a war that came to be known almost innocuously as ‘the bush war’. ‘Fireforce’, a tactic of total airborne envelopment, was developed and perfected by the RLI, together with the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian Air Force. Fireforce became the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces in their struggle against the overwhelming tide of the Communist-trained and -equipped ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas. The combat strain on a fighting soldier was almost unbelievable, for the Rhodesians, who were always desperately short of ground troops, were sometimes obliged to parachute the same men into action into as many as three enemy contacts a day. While estimates of enemy casualties vary, there seems little doubt that the RLI accounted for at least 12,000 ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas—but not without cost. Fireforce is not for the squeamish. Although it has been written with unforgettable pathos and humor, it tells of face-to-face combat in the bush and death at point-blank range. It is a book which does nothing to glorify or glamorize war, for as Chris Cocks found at such a young age, war is merely a catalogue of suffering, destruction and death. Fireforce has been described by critics as being to the Rhodesian War what All Quiet On The Western Front was to World War I and Dispatches was to Vietnam. Read it … it will an experience you never forget.