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A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels

Fascinating and sad history
Just finished reading this one. Crazy how the whole "free" world was willing to ignore communist aggression in Southern Africa for short term political expediency. They literally aided and abetted a communist overthrow of a western nation. Crazy. Those SAS guys were some bad dudes though!
 

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Just finished reading this one. Crazy how the whole "free" world was willing to ignore communist aggression in Southern Africa for short term political expediency. They literally aided and abetted a communist overthrow of a western nation. Crazy. Those SAS guys were some bad dudes though!
Yep. Much of the West (especially the Brits) stabbed them in the back. All the atrocities against women, children, the elderly, etc. were ignored. And the result was the rise of a brutal dictatorship and enforced strict poverty and starvation on the people. Politicians everywhere suck.
 
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I just finished:

The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw

I'm about to start:

Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays from the Vault by Jon Krakauer
 

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The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Fascinating military history of the first month of (and the months leading up to) WWI. So much governmental and military blundering. Tragic.
I enjoyed Guns of August very much. Barbara Tuchman has another book about the years immediately prior to WWI, roughly Edwardian time, that I would like to check out as well.
 

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