Selous Scouts Top Secret War - Lt. Col. Ron Reid Daly as told to Peter Stiff

Selous Scouts Top Secret War - Lt, Col. Ron Reid as told to Peter Stiff - Galago  - 1983, first UK edition -  Hardcover in good condition, dustcover good except for small tear top spine - Internally clean and tightly bound - 432pp, index - 89 black and white & 16 colour photographs + 18 maps. Heavy book: postage R 45.00

Cover: Picture reproduced from oil painting by Francis Lategan.

The story of the Selous Scouts Regiment of Rhodesia, formed in 1973 and abolished without benefit of formal disbandment, when Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF took power after the British supervised elections in 1980. It was officially credited with being directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of 68% of all guerrillas killed within Rhodesia during the war - for the loss of less than 40 Selous Scouts.

" The exploits of the Selous Scouts will ever be a reminder of the courage of individuals and an example of esprit de corps that ranks amongst the finest in military history......." Natal Mercury

" The Selous Scouts became the toughest and most efficient killing machine in Africa ... a fascinating and well illustrated account ... ' The Star

"It is a soldier's story about soldiers, so it is lacking in heroics but not in heroism ... uncompromisingly honest  ....." Daily Dispatch