Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980

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Flagg,

Good catch there!

Peter Baxter's hitherto unknown - to me - website has plenty to read. I have emailed him to ask for details of the 2017 Rhodesian Military History & Tactics speaking tour with Chris Cocks and him - which I know will be of interest here. See:http://peterbaxterafrica.com/

His Amazon bio:

Peter Baxter is an author, amateur historian and African field, mountain and heritage travel guide. Born in Kenya and educated in Zimbabwe, he has lived and travelled over much of southern and central Africa. He has guided in all the major mountain ranges south of the equator, helping develop the concept of sustainable travel, and the touring of battlefield and heritage sites in East Africa. Peter lives in Oregon, USA, working on the marketing of African heritage travel as well as a variety of book projects. His interests include British Imperial history in Africa and the East Africa campaign of the First World War in particular. His first book was Rhodesia: Last Outpost of the British Empire; he has written several books in the Africa@War series, including France in Centrafrique, Selous Scouts, Mau Mau, SAAF's Border War and Somalia: US Intervention, 1992-1994.

In the recent Selous Scouts thread I added two references to the use of poisoned clothing: Google search on poisoned clothing + Rhodesia finds many references to this activity; accounts appeared later in Rhodesian memoirs and became very controversial, for examples view http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1347508 and http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/sep3_2006.html

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It appears the book has yet to reach the printer, due to production difficulties over copying original documents - via Amazon.co.uk

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This book is now available in the UK and from May 2017 in the USA from Helion Publishing. The UK price is just under £20.

Link to Helion:http://www.helion.co.uk/dirty-war-rh...1975-1980.html

There is a second USA publisher, details in the next post.

From a BSAP History email it appears that two senior BSAP SB officers helped with documents, plus some papers held by the Selous Scouts have been traced.

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Yesterday I posted (in part):

There is a second USA publisher, but details have gone astray and an inquiry is underway.

There is distributor in the USA for Helion; they are Casemate Publishers, from Pennsylvania and their website is:www.casematepublishing.com

The book is priced at just under US$40.

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From the author in an email exchange:

The book is the culmination of nearly two decades of painstaking research, involving interviews with senior BSAP, CIO, Rhodesian Intelligence Corps, and Selous Scout officers on four continents. In the end, dozens of former personnel from the Rhodesian Security Forces were contacted. Also uncovered the few remaining documents related to the CBW effort. In end, this book is the most comprehensive and thorough book on the top secret Rhodesian CBW effort possible. Although many gaps still remain, the book illustrates how the Rhodesians were able to use CBW agents for years in a program that often surpassed the effectiveness of Rhodesian conventional arms.

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Alas the publisher has sent all the first batch to South Africa, so I am waiting and will add a review one day.

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The book's author has been interviewed (28 mins) by a Florida-based e-news site that appears to specialize in such matters (civil mainly). Short of time and know Rhodesia's history skip the first twelve minutes.
Link:http://outbreaknewstoday.com/rhodesi...n-cross-32381/