Never Quite a Soldier: A Rhodesian Policeman's War 1971-1982
David Lemon
Publisher: Galago (South Africa) 2006
Paperback - 268 pages - 32 pages black and white and colour pics, map
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The author was a policeman with Rhodesia's elite British South Africa Police during the Bush War days. His first involvement with the war came when he was member-in-charge of Macheke Police Station. Groups of infiltrating ZANLA guerrillas moved into the area and embarked on a murderous campaign targeting both black and white civilians.The war throughout the country escalated and indiscriminate acts of terror like the bomb detonated in a Woolworths branch in Salisbury that killed 12 black shoppers and wounded 76 more, the June 1978 massacre by ZANLA of nine white missionaries and four children - one a three week old baby, the shooting down of a Viscount airliner and the subsequent massacre of survivors and countless other terrible incidents decided him to join the elite Police Support Unit which comprised 12 companies of fighting policemen, most of them black.The Black Boots as they were known, were as smart or smarter than the Brigade of Guards on parade, and as fighting men they matched or surpassed any elite fighting unit anywhere in the world.This is an amazing firsthand account - David Lemon is one of the few white officers to have fought for Ian Smith, Bishop Muzorewa and Robert Mugabe, he is in a unique position to write about those turbulent years of war and its terrible aftermath..
