Images of War Peter Badcock

Images of War 

Author: Peter Badcock

Publisher: Graham Publishing, Durban, South Africa      

Edition: First 1981

ISBN: 0 620 05344 5

Language: English  

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. 

Binding: Hardcover  

Pages: 112. Print with images 

Additional Information

Images of War is a book of drawings and verse on war in the traditional sense, casting Peter Badcock as a war artist in the time-honored traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  It records a brief chapter, in 1980/81, in the lengthy South and South West African Border War.  It was a war which entangled many nations and forces in a conflict that would see the transition to an independent Namibia and a somewhat more stable Angola.  Peter Badcock was there not as a uniformed member of any force but as a war artist and poet.  Like a stranger in a strange land, I spent the best part of a year in South West Africa's border areas and travelled in and on every kind of transport land and air.  Images of War details the military face of that conflict: images of men and machines in operations and repose.  It documents what ranks as a small war in international terms, but the scale of its conventional and mechanized operations may stretch that definition.   I spent time with troops on the ground and SAAF pilots, most of whom had flown operationally in Rhodesia.  The experience confirmed the cross-over between these Southern African wars and the men who fought them. 

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