The action opens in an African shanty town bar frequented by two hardened White mercenaries. As the two quietly enjoy a beer, the bar is visited by several menacing African nationalists demanding funds for their terrorist cause.
We had a church with a pastor and a football team competing in provincial leagues. Every worker, 550 of them, lived in a brick home with electricity, running water, and a wood stove with unlimited firewood. There was a large store that provided everything from blankets to bicycles.
Drawn into the Congo Crisis and Biafra War of Independence, the Sudan, South Africa and Rhodesia Bush Wars, the soldiers-of-fortune numbered in their ranks legends as Colonel Mike Hoare, ‘Black Jack’ Schramme, veteran Colonel Bob Denard, and Major Siegfried Müller.
As an aside to Goldie Hastings’s girlfriend standing helplessly looking on, McLeod grinned. ‘Turn away; what you are about to see is not for a lady’s eyes even if you’re no lady.’
THE TRAIL BENEATH THE TEARS (Farewell to Africa) . It was when the grind and grumble, Of those wagons passed this way, The colour sergeant’s bark was never meek, The sighing strain of steel, That was bound fast to the wheel, Was melody to rumble and to squeak. […]
On the sombre occasion of Remembrance Sunday, the nation selectively remembered. Airbrushed from the occasion the 26,121 Rhodesians who fought for Britain during WWII in which 916 gave their lives. Also blue-pencilled the 784 members of the British armed forces and their families who lost their lives during […]
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