| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits (some in colour) |
| Contents |
List of photographs; List of maps; Picture acknowledgements; Glossary and abbreviations; Author's note; Acknowledgements; Preface: The sun sets somewhere; Part 1: The Viscount tragedy; 1 Britain takes sides; 2 Unholy grail; 3 Flame Lily; 4 Nyaminyami; 5 Noah's bounty; 6 Flight RH825; 7 Raising the alarm; 8 The aftermath; 9 Murdered twice; 10 White-hot anger; 11 The silence is deafening; Part 2: Operation Gatling; 12 Gatling revenge; 13 The Gatling plan; 14 Fylde airfield: D minus one; 15 D-Day: Thursday 19 October 1978; 16 The Canberra: A lady and a bitch; 17 Green Leader |
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18 Phase one: Attack on Freedom Camp19 Phase two: SAS attack on Mkushi; 20 Phase three: RLI attack on the Central Guerrilla Training complexes; 21 Chaos in Lusaka; 22 Another tragedy and Green Leader strikes Angola; Epilogue; Appendix: Documents; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small children, survived the crash only for most of them to be gunned down in cold blood shortly after the crash by terrorists loyal to the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) leader Joshua Nkomo. Just days before the plane was shot down, the Rhodesian leader, Ian Smith, had met secretly with Nkomo for discussions, brokered by Britain, Zambia and Nigeria. However, this event dramatically changed the political landscape and wrecked a plan by the British government to mould an alliance between Smith and the Ndebele leader Nkomo, and smoothed the path for the Shona leader Robert Mugabe to become the first leader of Zimbabwe. In this fascinating two-part account, Ian Pringle, describes the Viscount tragedy and the military response. He uses exclusive interviews with two survivors of the crash and the massacre, and with the first person to arrive at the horrendous crash scene (commanding officer of the Rhodesian SAS Regiment), as well as accounts from other key witnesses, to recreate the tragic event. He describes the white-hot anger felt by the small white community in Rhodesia, who howled for revenge and demanded martial law and total war."--Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nkomo, Joshua
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Smith, Ian Douglas, 1919-2007.
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Nkomo, Joshua fast |
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Smith, Ian Douglas, 1919-2007 fast |
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Zimbabwe African People's Union.
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| SUBJECT |
Zimbabwe African People's Union fast |
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Aircraft accidents -- Zimbabwe
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Terrorism -- Zimbabwe -- History
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Victims of terrorism -- Zimbabwe
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Counterinsurgency -- Zimbabwe
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
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Aircraft accidents
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Counterinsurgency
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Politics and government
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Terrorism
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Victims of terrorism
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| SUBJECT |
Zimbabwe -- History -- Chimurenga War, 1966-1980.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007010
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Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1965-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149822
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Zimbabwe -- History, Military.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149817
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Zimbabwe -- History -- 1965-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149815
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| Subject |
Zimbabwe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781911096788 |
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1911096788 |
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