Blue and Gold The History of the British South Africa Police 1889 1980
Author: Peter Gibbs, Hugh Phillips & Nick Russell. Illustrated by Richard Hamley
Publisher: 30° South Publishing
Edition: first 2009
ISBN: 978-1920143-35-0
Language: English
Condition: Excellent As new. Clean copy with tight binding
Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
Pages: 576. Print with images
Additional Information
In 1889 Cecil John Rhodes was granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria to settle Mashonaland, in what was to become Southern Rhodesia. So was formed the British South Africa Company; its regiment of troopers raised to protect the occupying Pioneer Column dubbed the British South Africa Police, the BSAP.
From the 1893 Matabele War, the 1896 Mashona Rebellion and the Jameson Raid, the AngloBoer War, through both world wars and finally to the bitter Rhodesian bush war of the 1960s and 70s, troopers and officers of this fine regiment of policemen, both black and white, were proudly to the fore, in civilian and military roles until the disbandment of the Force in 1980 when the country became the independent Zimbabwe.
Incorporating Volume I: The First Line of Defence 18891903, by Peter Gibbs; Volume II: The Right of The Line 19031939, by Peter Gibbs; and Volume III: The End of The Line 19391980, by Hugh Phillips. Also with dozens of anecdotal contributions and accounts from ex-members, updated and comprehensive nominal rolls and roll of honour and Dick Hamleys beautiful colour plates.
Over 750 photographsmany of them previously unpublished. This never-to-be-repeated coffee-table record of the history of a country is a must for former BSAP members, their children and descendants, and anyone with an interest in the unfolding developments in the country now known as Zimbabwe.
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