| Description |
1 online resource (290 pages, 28 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, facsimiles |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 10, 2014). |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. One Selous Scouts attachment, 1974 -- 1976 -- ch. Two Beitbridge: first blood to ZANLA, May 1967 -- ch. Three Insidious intensification, late 1976 -- ch. Four Overt intensification, January 1977 -- June 1977 -- ch. Five Landmines, ambushes and poison, July -- December 1977 -- ch. Six Protected villages and the litany of terror continues, January -- June 1978 -- ch. Seven Dirty tricks -- ch. Eight A busy two months, July -- August 1978 -- ch. Nine Deployment of 1 (Indep) Company Rhodesian African Rifles, September -- December 1978 -- ch. Ten Routine slaughter, January -- June 1979 -- ch. Eleven Sweet Banana and a Q bus, July -- November 1979 -- ch. Twelve Transfer to Gwanda, November 1979 -- ch. Thirteen A case of political expedience. |
| Summary |
This searing account primarily covers Ed Bird''s Special Branch (SB) service in the Beitbridge area of southern Matabeleland, 1976-1980, encompassing Operations Repulse and Tangent of the bitter Rhodesian ''bush war''. Joining the British South Africa Police (BSAP) in 1964, Bird cut his teeth on Selous Scouts ''pseudo'' operations during Operation Hurricane in 1974-1976, so was well equipped to deal with the insidious escalation of the ZANLA and ZIPRA campaigns in the south of the country. A meticulous recorder, Bird implemented and maintained the Beitbridge SB incident log, and it is this diary. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Bird, Ed, 1946-
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Bird, Ed, 1946- |
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British South Africa Police -- Biography.
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British South Africa Police. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Southern Rhodesia. Army. Selous Scouts.
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Southern Rhodesia. Army. Selous Scouts. |
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Zimbabwe -- Armed Forces -- History.
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Zimbabwe. |
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Armed Forces. |
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History. |
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Zimbabwe -- History -- Chimurenga War, 1966-1980 -- Personal narratives.
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Zimbabwe -- History, Military -- 1965-1980.
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History, Military. |
| Chronological Term |
1965-1980 |
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Police -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.
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Political violence -- Zimbabwe -- Matabeleland.
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Political violence. |
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Police. |
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Counterinsurgency -- Zimbabwe.
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Counterinsurgency. |
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. |
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Zimbabwe -- Matabeleland. |
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa. |
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Chimurenga War (Zimbabwe : 1966-1980) |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Military history.
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Personal narratives.
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| Subject |
Police. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Personal narratives.
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| Added Title |
Slaughter in the Rhodesian bush |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bird, Ed. Special Branch War : Slaughter in the Rhodesian Bush. Southern Matabeleland, 1976-1980. Havertown : Helion & Company, ©2014 9781909982345 |
| ISBN |
9781910294321 (electronic book) |
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1910294322 (electronic book) |
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