Echoes of an African War, Chas Lotter In Echoes of an African War, Chas Lotter, the soldier poet of Southern Africa, matches his haunting poetry with authentic photos, paintings and sketches to tell the story of the Rhodesian bush war. The formula is effective and was proven in his previous works. Echoes of an African War follows the story of the teenaged army recruit who exchanged his home and his family for the world of barrack life. It sketches the years, until 1973, when a low-intensity war allowed a young man to explore the African bush. The story then bursts into the late 1970s when the conflict escalated into a vicious civil war. It covers the war's end in 1980 and his subsequent readjustment to civilian life before finishing in 1999 when, as a mature man, he looks back and remembers events that are now history. In Echoes of an African War, Chas Lotter has perfected the magic art of combining pathos and eeriness. His observations are canny and surgically precise as he gradually unfolds his story. H/B, D/J, 330x248mm, 650 f/c photos ISBN (Std & Deluxe) 0-620-23091-6

Fireforce, Chris Cocks

Fireforce is a gut-wrenching account of brutal face-to-face combat in the Rhodesian bush. It is not for the squeamish.

Fireforce is widely acclaimed as the classic account of counter-insurgency warfare in Africa - as told by the combat soldier "on the ground".

Fireforce is the compelling and brutally honest account of Chris Cocks' service during the Rhodesian bush war in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry. At the age of 18, he left a sheltered family life and joined the RLI.

Fireforce was a method of combat developed by the Rhodesians - and perfected by the RLI - which involved troops being helicoptered or parachuted into an area immediately after a guerrilla presence had been reported or a sighting made. Due to the enormous shortage of ground troops the same men were sometimes parachuted into contacts as many as three times per day.

Fireforce includes the RLI roll of honour, citations, some operational orders and appendices.

Size - 228x155mm, 368 pages, 120 colour & b/w photos, map and sketches.

Softback, 3rd Edition  ISBN   1-919874-32-1

Mapolisa - Some Reminiscences of a Rhodesian Policeman, D Craven

Mapolisa is the late David Craven's memoirs of his service from 1948 to 1969 in the British South Africa Police (BSAP). It captures the flavour of a colonial era that was closing as the winds of change blew across Africa.

Mapolisa is a delightful account of an ordinary policeman simply getting on with his job in what was first Southern Rhodesia, then Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe.

Size - 222x152mm, 216 pages, 66 b/w illustrations, map.

ISBN 0-620-22522-X.

Fire in the Sky - The Destruction of the Orange Free State 1899-1902, Owen Coetzer

Over 27 000 Boer women and children died during the Anglo-Boer War.

Fire in the Sky is the late Owen Coetzer's account of those who died in the concentration camps which the British built and ran in the old Boer republic known as the Orange Free State.

Fire in the Sky is a story of appalling conditions, of deprivation and of starvation.

In Fire in the Sky, Owen Coetzer describes the conditions in the Orange Free State as it lay ruined and starving in the later stages of the Anglo-Boer war.

Fire in the Sky records how Britain underestimated the "wily Boer" and how Boer families suffered as a result. Because they could not destroy the Boer commandos, Kitchener -the Lord of Chilled Steel - made war on their wives and children, herding them, without adequate food or shelter, into concentration camps on the wintry veld.

Fire in the Sky is the shocking, brutal story of a fierce, almost forgotten, struggle for freedom against the forces of a colonial power.

ISBN 0-620-24114-4, S/B, 222x152mm, 362pp, 49 b/w photos, map,

The Regiment - A History and Uniforms of the British South Africa Police, R Hamley

The Regiment is a stunning coffee-table pictorial production.

The Regiment features the author's own vivid water colour plates of the BSAP's uniforms as they evolved over time.

The Regiment traces the development of this fine colonial paramilitary police force in Rhodesia from the 1890s to 1980.

The Regiment is a valuable addition to the history of the force which always stood "right of the line".

Size - 297x210mm, 160 pages, 75 colour plates.

ISBN 0-620-25394-0

A Pride of Eagles – The Definitive History of The Rhodesian Air Force 1920–1980, Beryl Salt (assisted by Group Captain Bill Sykes and Wing Commander Peter Cooke)

A Pride of Eagles is the story of military aviation in Rhodesia, beginning in the "bush flying" days of the 1920s and 1930s - a time when aircraft were refueled from jerry cans and the only landing ground available was often the local golf course.

A Pride of Eagles tells how, in 1939, the tiny Rhodesian Air Force became the first to take up battle stations - before the outbreak of World War II. The three Squadrons of the Rhaf served in East Africa, the Western Desert, Italy and Western Europe.

A Pride of Eagles tells how Rhodesia became a vast training ground for airmen from Britain, the Commonwealth and Greece.

A Pride of Eagles follows the story of the the Rhodesian Air Force when, after World War II, Rhodesia rebuilt its air force on a tiny budget and equipped it with Ansons, Spitfires, Vampires, Canberras, Hunters and Alouettes.

A Pride of Eagles tells how, in the years after UDI, sanctions were imposed but, instead of crippling the Rhaf, resulted in many remarkable aviation innovations.

A Pride of Eagles records the events of the bitter Rhodesian bush war, which followed in the 70s, when the RhAF was in the vanguard of counter-insurgency operations.

ISBN 0-620-23759-7

King's Gold by Glenn Macaskill

King's Gold is set against the backdrops of the genocidal massacre of thousands of tribespeople in Matabeleland by the notorious Army Fifth Brigade in the 1980s and, more recently, the tragic dark cloud which descended upon Zimbabwe in the year 2000, a roller coaster ride takes the reader through tribal superstition and legend, murder, courage and romance.

Trevor Lawson and friends find themselves embroiled in political intrigue involving the CIA and other intelligence networks, the traumatic events of a nation on the brink of anarchy, and the exciting quest to unravel the secrets of a bygone forbidden treasure.

ISBN 0-620-31002-2