THE WAR DIARIES OF ANDRE DENNISON - RHODESIAN AFRICAN RIFLES

Publisher: Ashanti Publishing Limited

Author: JRT Wood

ISBN: 0 620 13545 X

Condition: Good

Pages: 394

When the Rhodesian Army recruited Andre Dennison in 1975, it could not have chosen better. It secured the services of a hardened veteran of four of the minor wars of the 1950s and 1960s - the Suez debacle; the Cyprus Emergency; the confrontation with Indonesia as well as events, as we have seen them in Northern Ireland. Dennison had been a paratrooper. a member of the SAS, a company commander and a training officer. He had served with the Malawi Rifles and gained experience with African troops. Thus he was the most appropriate choice as the first Officer Commanding of 'A' Company of the new 2nd Battalion of the Rhodesian African Rifles.

Andre Dennison affords the reader  a unique insight into the life of a black Infantry Company in the traumatic last five years of the long insurgency war in Rhodesia.