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Britain's Rebel Air Force: War from the Air in Rhodesia, 1965-80 [Hardcover]

Roy Conyers Nesbitt (Author), etc. (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Grub Street; illustrated edition edition (30 Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902304055
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902304052
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.2 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,316,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The Rhodesian declaration of independence in 1965 heralded a rebellion by people of mainly British stock against their mother country. One of the main instruments which sustained this rebellion for 14 years was the Royal Rhodesian Air Force. Many of those who served in this force had strong affiliations with the RAF and were trained in its methods and aircraft. This account of the war has been compiled using the first-hand personal experiences of many pilots and crew. Appendices include matters such as Chiefs of Air Staff, air bases, rank structure, honours and awards, and lists of aircrafts and losses, as well as details of how Royal Navy warships and Royal Air Force units carried out patrols in attempts to enforce sanctions. Maps and photographs are included which illustrate specialized aircraft involved, such as twin-fuselage Lynx.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent historical analysis of the Rhodesian Airforce, 19 Jan 1999
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This review is from: Britain's Rebel Air Force: War from the Air in Rhodesia, 1965-80 (Hardcover)
As a Rhodesian who had the privilege of serving in the country's defence forces, it was an absolute pleasure to read a concise and accurate account of the history of the Rhodesian Airforce, exempt from the political histrionics so favoured by many.

Well done to the authors for presenting a highly readable account of how "so few managed with so little" despite the perfidy of the British government of the day.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read, 19 July 2000
This review is from: Britain's Rebel Air Force: War from the Air in Rhodesia, 1965-80 (Hardcover)
Born in Rhodesia and then went to school in Zimbabwe, where nothing much was ever said of our country's recent history and definitely never taught at school! So this book filled in many gaps for me and made me feel proud!

Excellent, thankyou

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2.0 out of 5 stars A reasonable summary but adds nothing new, 31 Oct 2010
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This review is from: Britain's Rebel Air Force: War from the Air in Rhodesia, 1965-80 (Hardcover)
A history of the organisation and operations of the RRAF, RhAF and ( briefly ) the post-war AFZ including details of the elaborate sanctions-busting operations in conjunction with Malloch's various airlines.

If you have read much of the corpus of books about the Rhodesian war then this volume will add little. In several paragraphs I was able to identify the source book through the authors' mild rewording, despite omission from the bibliography. They even manage to spin-out a chapter summarising the Green Leader transcript.

The narrative is arranged into topical, rather than chronological, chapters and tends to shy away from technical matters. This is probably because of the lack of technical nous on the authors' parts; for example in their misunderstanding of radio propagation and omission of the key to the Alpha Bomb diagram "borrowed" from Flight's 14 Dec 1984 issue. And they constantly refer to the "Douglas Dakota C-47", which the slightest research would have shown to be a nonsensical composite of designations.

At times the narrative becomes rather sycophantic and the authors' refusal to use the terms ZIPRA and ZANLA, instead referring to ethnic groups, whilst using precise terminology for Rhodesian units, does suggest an attempt to dehumanise the "enemy".

Although by half-way I was becoming weary of reading things I already knew, I persevered to the end and was rewarded by Andy Thomas' appendices of interesting minutiae such as Rhodesian civil airline fleets, RN ships on Beira patrol and RhAF losses. This contrasts sharply with the non-technical body of the book and is the sole reason I awarded more than one star.

A missed opportunity to tell a different story.
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