Images of War - Peter Badcock

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.

Hardcover in good condition