The penchant to kill resulted in the frequent execution of prisoners, which hampered Rhodesia’s intelligence effort, something existing studies of the war often overlook.[85]
85. Cilliers, 218-35. For a discussion of Rhodesia’s intelligence effort without reference to the issue of prisoners; Godwin and Hancock, The Rhodesian War, 284 refers to Cocks (236) to show how the war brutalized white society; Moorcraft does not mention the execution of prisoners.
(1) J.K. Cilliers, Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia (Beckenham: Croom Helm Ltd, 1985); (2) Peter Godwin and Ian Hancock, Rhodesians Never Die - The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia, c. 1970-1980 (Harare: Baobab Books, 1995, first published 1993 by Oxford University Press); (3) Paul Moorcraft and Peter McLaughlin, The Rhodesian War: A Military History (South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Military, 2008).
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