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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Mount Darwin, Rhodesia, December 1976.The siren goes, and the Fireforce is airborne within minutes. One K Car with a 20mm cannon. Four G Cars with twin Brownings. Paratroopers in a Dakota overhead. Somewhere in the bush below, men are pinned down and waiting for the helicopters.Sean flies as the gunner in the K Car. Andre flies Yellow One, and he is the best G Car pilot on the forward airfield. He puts his helicopter into gaps other pilots will not try. He takes rounds through the cabin floor and keeps fighting. But Sean begins to notice small things. A pipe lit and left to go out, again and again. A fuel cap checked four times. A man who stares at bullet holes long after the danger has passed.Then a twelve-year-old boy is shot during a contact, and the whole Fireforce hears him crying over the radio. After that day, Andre is never the same.Broken Arrow follows these men through the last weeks of 1976: the scrambles, the contacts, the casevacs, and the long nights in the bar after last light. It is a story about bravery in the air, and about a kind of damage no one at the time had a name for.Based on true events and written by a man who was there, Broken Arrow is a tribute to the men and women of Fireforce, and to those who came home carrying more than anyone realised.For readers of Rhodesian Bush War history and military aviation, and for anyone who has watched someone they love carry the weight of war in silence.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Lord Soames shot one buffalo and thought he was done. The buffalo disagreed.The sequel to The Governor and the Dagga Boy. You do not need to have read the first book to enjoy this one. That book had a hunting camp, a horse named Betty and a honey badger. This one has a whole Government House, a runaway chef and the end of an empire. The stakes are higher. The gin is the same.April 1980. Prince Charles flies into Salisbury for one of the last jobs of the British Empire: to lower the flag over Rhodesia and go home. It should take one afternoon. It does not. The crowds are thin, the bunting is faded, and someone throws a tomato at the royal car.On the lawn of Government House, a dead buffalo hangs from a jacaranda tree. Nobody knows how it got there. Lord Soames, the last governor of Rhodesia, wants it gone. He also wants another gin. Inside, an uninvited Jamaican chef named Delroy has taken over the kitchen. He came to cook for Bob Marley's band, got lost, and decided the British deserved a proper meal. His cream of mushroom soup is a great success with everyone at the table, and that is the problem. By midnight, the Prince's aide believes he is a fox, the carpets are breathing, and the portrait of Cecil Rhodes has started to look disappointed.Lord Soames is suffering. His stomach has, in his own words, overthrown his digestive system and declared itself an independent republic. Relief comes from a young gardener's assistant who is very high and, it turns out, very wise. The Prince, who is wearing wool in the tropics and would much rather be home talking to his plants, has not slept in three days and has eaten the soup.Then it gets worse. Lord Soames does what the British always do and forms a committee. Then another. The Ministry of Definitions is created, but it cannot yet define itself. The Archbishop asks for a private audience with the chandelier and is refused, because chandeliers are classed as non responsive infrastructure. The buffalo is entered in the official registry, turns up in a photograph taken a year before it arrived, and is reclassified as a "distributed phenomenon". Meetings are called to discuss a statement about mountains that the Prince swears he never made. Government House splits into rival versions of itself, and only the paperwork holds it together.Along the way, the gong that has announced every dinner since 1898 begins to sound as if dinner is only a concept the household is choosing to entertain. Three official reports describe the buffalo, and none of them can be reconciled with the others. Twenty years later the house is a museum, and the guides say that the strange feeling in the garden is just the jacaranda trees. Some visitors are not so sure about that.At the heart of it all is one simple job: a flag must come down. Will it? Will anyone ever explain the soup? Will anyone agree on what the buffalo is? And what is that dark shape walking beside the Prince at the end?The Last Flag is a fast, absurd and very funny satire about empire, bureaucracy and the stories people tell to avoid what is standing right in front of them. It is full of running jokes, gin soaked speeches and officials who would rather file a problem than solve it. Behind the jokes sits a sharp question: what happens when nobody can agree on what is real, and the only thing left to trust is a form, filed in triplicate? Twenty-four chapters. One epilogue. No sensible people.If you like dry British humour, political satire, and stories where the filing system is more dangerous than the villain, this book is for you. Pick up your copy today and find out what the buffalo really wants.A work of satirical fiction. The events are invented, and the characters are products of the author's imagination. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. High in the misty Soutpansberg mountains of South Africa, where ancient trees stretch toward the clouds and rivers wind quietly through the forest, a curious little kitten named Pokoloksi is about to learn the biggest lesson of her life.Pokoloksi is a small grey-and-white kitten with bright green eyes and a heart full of questions. She loves her mother, her warm and cozy home, and the gentle little girl named Tayla who strokes her fur and tucks her in each night. But Pokoloksi has one tiny weakness: she simply cannot resist an adventure. So when a little mouse darts past her paws, she chases it deep into the tall trees. and suddenly the forest feels enormous, the daylight is fading, and home is nowhere to be found.Lost, frightened, and far from her mother, Pokoloksi soon discovers she is not alone. She meets Nibble Mouse, a shy and gentle new friend who is lost too, and together the unlikely pair set out to find their way home. Their journey leads them to kindness in the most unexpected places: a warm-hearted family of bullfrogs beside a shimmering pond, and, high on the misty mountain, a family of leopards who turn out to be far less frightening than they first appear. All the while, back home, Tayla and Pokoloksi's mother never stop searching, calling her name through the trees.Along the way, Pokoloksi learns that courage is not about never being afraid, but about being brave even when you are. She learns that the very creatures we fear can become the friends we need most, and that no matter how far we wander, love will always help us find our way home.Pokoloksi and Nibble Mouse is a warm, gentle bedtime story and beautifully illustrated children's chapter book, written to be shared aloud, one cozy chapter at a time. Set against the wild beauty of the African bushveld, it carries young readers on an unforgettable adventure of friendship and bravery while quietly nurturing the values that matter most: kindness, courage, listening, loyalty, and the comforting certainty of coming home. It is the kind of story that calms busy little minds at the end of the day, sparks wonder about animals and the natural world, and leaves children feeling safe, brave, and loved as they drift off to sleep.A perfect bedtime story for: Children aged 3 to 8, and confident early and beginner readers who love animal adventuresParents and grandparents searching for a heartwarming, meaningful read-aloud storyLittle animal lovers who adore cats, kittens, mice, frogs, leopards, and tales of the wildBedtime, story time, bonding moments, preschool, kindergarten, and quiet classroom readingMore than a bedtime story, it is a gentle fable about growing up: about wandering a little too far, making mistakes, and discovering that home, family, and true friends are always waiting to welcome you back. Children will see themselves in Pokoloksi's curiosity and her fears, and parents will find quiet comfort in a tale that celebrates empathy, resilience, and the simple, everyday courage it takes to keep going when the path feels dark.Told across ten short, read-aloud chapters, this is a story to stretch across many nights, or to lose yourselves in all at once. With its soothing rhythm, its tender hand-painted illustrations, and its reassuring reminder that even when we lose our way we are never truly alone, Pokoloksi and Nibble Mouse is a book your child will ask for again and again, and one you will treasure reading to them long after the lights go out.So dim the lights, turn the page, and follow Pokoloksi and Nibble Mouse through the whispering forests and misty mountains of the Soutpansberg.Because the best adventures begin with a single, curious step. And this one begins tonight. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Rauch, Dieter Michael (ilustrador).…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. High in the misty Soutpansberg mountains of South Africa, where ancient trees stretch toward the clouds and rivers wind quietly through the forest, a curious little kitten named Pokoloksi is about to learn the biggest lesson of her life.Pokoloksi is a small grey-and-white kitten with bright green eyes and a heart full of questions. She loves her mother, her warm and cozy home, and the gentle little girl named Tayla who strokes her fur and tucks her in each night. But Pokoloksi has one tiny weakness: she simply cannot resist an adventure. So when a little mouse darts past her paws, she chases it deep into the tall trees. and suddenly the forest feels enormous, the daylight is fading, and home is nowhere to be found.Lost, frightened, and far from her mother, Pokoloksi soon discovers she is not alone. She meets Nibble Mouse, a shy and gentle new friend who is lost too, and together the unlikely pair set out to find their way home. Their journey leads them to kindness in the most unexpected places: a warm-hearted family of bullfrogs beside a shimmering pond, and, high on the misty mountain, a family of leopards who turn out to be far less frightening than they first appear. All the while, back home, Tayla and Pokoloksi's mother never stop searching, calling her name through the trees.Along the way, Pokoloksi learns that courage is not about never being afraid, but about being brave even when you are. She learns that the very creatures we fear can become the friends we need most, and that no matter how far we wander, love will always help us find our way home.Pokoloksi and Nibble Mouse is a warm, gentle bedtime story and beautifully illustrated children's chapter book, written to be shared aloud, one cozy chapter at a time. Set against the wild beauty of the African bushveld, it carries young readers on an unforgettable adventure of friendship and bravery while quietly nurturing the values that matter most: kindness, courage, listening, loyalty, and the comforting certainty of coming home. It is the kind of story that calms busy little minds at the end of the day, sparks wonder about animals and the natural world, and leaves children feeling safe, brave, and loved as they drift off to sleep.A perfect bedtime story for: Children aged 3 to 8, and confident early and beginner readers who love animal adventuresParents and grandparents searching for a heartwarming, meaningful read-aloud storyLittle animal lovers who adore cats, kittens, mice, frogs, leopards, and tales of the wildBedtime, story time, bonding moments, preschool, kindergarten, and quiet classroom readingMore than a bedtime story, it is a gentle fable about growing up: about wandering a little too far, making mistakes, and discovering that home, family, and true friends are always waiting to welcome you back. Children will see themselves in Pokoloksi's curiosity and her fears, and parents will find quiet comfort in a tale that celebrates empathy, resilience, and the simple, everyday courage it takes to keep going when the path feels dark.Told across ten short, read-aloud chapters, this is a story to stretch across many nights, or to lose yourselves in all at once. With its soothing rhythm, its tender hand-painted illustrations, and its reassuring reminder that even when we lose our way we are never truly alone, Pokoloksi and Nibble Mouse is a book your child will ask for again and again, and one you will treasure reading to them long after the lights go out.So dim the lights, turn the page, and follow Pokoloksi and Nibble Mouse through the whispering forests and misty mountains of the Soutpansberg.Because the best adventures begin with a single, curious step. And this one begins tonight. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Rauch, Dieter Michael (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Lord Soames shot one buffalo and thought he was done. The buffalo disagreed.The sequel to The Governor and the Dagga Boy. You do not need to have read the first book to enjoy this one. That book had a hunting camp, a horse named Betty and a honey badger. This one has a whole Government House, a runaway chef and the end of an empire. The stakes are higher. The gin is the same.April 1980. Prince Charles flies into Salisbury for one of the last jobs of the British Empire: to lower the flag over Rhodesia and go home. It should take one afternoon. It does not. The crowds are thin, the bunting is faded, and someone throws a tomato at the royal car.On the lawn of Government House, a dead buffalo hangs from a jacaranda tree. Nobody knows how it got there. Lord Soames, the last governor of Rhodesia, wants it gone. He also wants another gin. Inside, an uninvited Jamaican chef named Delroy has taken over the kitchen. He came to cook for Bob Marley's band, got lost, and decided the British deserved a proper meal. His cream of mushroom soup is a great success with everyone at the table, and that is the problem. By midnight, the Prince's aide believes he is a fox, the carpets are breathing, and the portrait of Cecil Rhodes has started to look disappointed.Lord Soames is suffering. His stomach has, in his own words, overthrown his digestive system and declared itself an independent republic. Relief comes from a young gardener's assistant who is very high and, it turns out, very wise. The Prince, who is wearing wool in the tropics and would much rather be home talking to his plants, has not slept in three days and has eaten the soup.Then it gets worse. Lord Soames does what the British always do and forms a committee. Then another. The Ministry of Definitions is created, but it cannot yet define itself. The Archbishop asks for a private audience with the chandelier and is refused, because chandeliers are classed as non responsive infrastructure. The buffalo is entered in the official registry, turns up in a photograph taken a year before it arrived, and is reclassified as a "distributed phenomenon". Meetings are called to discuss a statement about mountains that the Prince swears he never made. Government House splits into rival versions of itself, and only the paperwork holds it together.Along the way, the gong that has announced every dinner since 1898 begins to sound as if dinner is only a concept the household is choosing to entertain. Three official reports describe the buffalo, and none of them can be reconciled with the others. Twenty years later the house is a museum, and the guides say that the strange feeling in the garden is just the jacaranda trees. Some visitors are not so sure about that.At the heart of it all is one simple job: a flag must come down. Will it? Will anyone ever explain the soup? Will anyone agree on what the buffalo is? And what is that dark shape walking beside the Prince at the end?The Last Flag is a fast, absurd and very funny satire about empire, bureaucracy and the stories people tell to avoid what is standing right in front of them. It is full of running jokes, gin soaked speeches and officials who would rather file a problem than solve it. Behind the jokes sits a sharp question: what happens when nobody can agree on what is real, and the only thing left to trust is a form, filed in triplicate? Twenty-four chapters. One epilogue. No sensible people.If you like dry British humour, political satire, and stories where the filing system is more dangerous than the villain, this book is for you. Pick up your copy today and find out what the buffalo really wants.A work of satirical fiction. The events are invented, and the characters are products of the author's imagination. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Beitbridge, Rhodesia. 1977. An 18-year-old woman sits behind a radio console at a remote B.S.A.P. border post where South Africa meets Mozambique. Her call sign is 303. For three years, that voice was a lifeline for soldiers, airforce pilots, farmers, and civilians caught in one of the most brutal conflicts in southern African history. This is her story. THE VOICE OF 303 is the firsthand memoir of Pamela Hope Cawood (Mimi), a British South Africa Police radio operator who served at Beitbridge during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1977 to 1980. At just 18 years old, she coordinated Fireforce responses, relayed contact reports, managed emergency communications under fire, and kept morale alive across a war zone that stretched along the Limpopo River into the killing grounds of southeastern Rhodesia. This is not a conventional military history. It is a deeply personal account of war as experienced from the signals room, a perspective that has never before been told in Rhodesian war literature. Mimi writes with honesty, warmth, and sharp detail about the men and women she worked alongside: Rhodesian Army soldiers, Rhodesian Airforce helicopter pilots, B.S.A.P. officers, Support Unit troops, PATU patrol members, Special Branch operatives, and the farming families who refused to abandon their land. On one occasion, a chance switch to a different radio frequency intercepted a Mayday call that saved a man who had lost both legs in an RPG7 ambush. He drove to Beitbridge specifically to thank her. The book features forewords from Superintendent Mobie van Wyk (B.S.A.P.), Flight Lieutenant Keith Spence DMM (Rhodesian Airforce 7 Squadron Alouette pilot), and Major D.H. Price BCR (1 Independent Company, Rhodesian African Rifles). It is dedicated to her husband Beaver Shaw, helicopter technician and gunner, whose companion memoir is Choppertech by Beaver Shaw. Spanning first-person combat accounts, police operations, airforce missions, family memoir, bush war poetry, and songs of Rhodesia, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Rhodesian Bush War, Zimbabwe history, African military history, Rhodesian memoirs, white Rhodesia, colonial Africa, Cold War proxy conflicts in southern Africa, BSAP history, Fireforce operations, Rhodesian Airforce, Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts, counterinsurgency warfare in Africa, ZANLA, ZIPRA, or the human cost of one of the twentieth century's most contested conflicts. Contributions from over one hundred veterans, farmers, pilots, soldiers, and police officers make this a rare and irreplaceable archive of lived experience. The book covers the full arc of the war in the Beitbridge district, from the escalation of ZANLA and ZIPRA insurgency through cross-border raids, mortar attacks on Beitbridge village, ambushes, casualty evacuations, and Fireforce call-outs, all the way to the 1980 ceasefire and the end of Rhodesia. Accounts are drawn from police, army, and airforce personnel, farmers, and civilians, many of whom have never before shared their stories in print. This is also a book about women in war. About what it meant to be 18 years old, female, and the voice that soldiers called when they had no one else. About loyalty, loss, laughter, and a community that held together under conditions that would have broken most. Comparable to memoirs by Ron Reid-Daly, Peter Stiff, Alexandre Binda, and Chris Cocks, THE VOICE OF 303 brings an entirely new and previously unheard perspective to the literature of the Rhodesian Bush War.For those who were there, this book will bring it all back. For those who were not, it will take you there. A signed limited hardcover edition of 1,000 copies is available directly from the author. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Beitbridge, Rhodesia. 1977. An 18-year-old woman sits behind a radio console at a remote B.S.A.P. border post where South Africa meets Mozambique. Her call sign is 303. For three years, that voice was a lifeline for soldiers, airforce pilots, farmers, and civilians caught in one of the most brutal conflicts in southern African history. This is her story. THE VOICE OF 303 is the firsthand memoir of Pamela Hope Cawood (Mimi), a British South Africa Police radio operator who served at Beitbridge during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1977 to 1980. At just 18 years old, she coordinated Fireforce responses, relayed contact reports, managed emergency communications under fire, and kept morale alive across a war zone that stretched along the Limpopo River into the killing grounds of southeastern Rhodesia. This is not a conventional military history. It is a deeply personal account of war as experienced from the signals room, a perspective that has never before been told in Rhodesian war literature. Mimi writes with honesty, warmth, and sharp detail about the men and women she worked alongside: Rhodesian Army soldiers, Rhodesian Airforce helicopter pilots, B.S.A.P. officers, Support Unit troops, PATU patrol members, Special Branch operatives, and the farming families who refused to abandon their land. On one occasion, a chance switch to a different radio frequency intercepted a Mayday call that saved a man who had lost both legs in an RPG7 ambush. He drove to Beitbridge specifically to thank her. The book features forewords from Superintendent Mobie van Wyk (B.S.A.P.), Flight Lieutenant Keith Spence DMM (Rhodesian Airforce 7 Squadron Alouette pilot), and Major D.H. Price BCR (1 Independent Company, Rhodesian African Rifles). It is dedicated to her husband Beaver Shaw, helicopter technician and gunner, whose companion memoir is Choppertech by Beaver Shaw. Spanning first-person combat accounts, police operations, airforce missions, family memoir, bush war poetry, and songs of Rhodesia, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Rhodesian Bush War, Zimbabwe history, African military history, Rhodesian memoirs, white Rhodesia, colonial Africa, Cold War proxy conflicts in southern Africa, BSAP history, Fireforce operations, Rhodesian Airforce, Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts, counterinsurgency warfare in Africa, ZANLA, ZIPRA, or the human cost of one of the twentieth century's most contested conflicts. Contributions from over one hundred veterans, farmers, pilots, soldiers, and police officers make this a rare and irreplaceable archive of lived experience. The book covers the full arc of the war in the Beitbridge district, from the escalation of ZANLA and ZIPRA insurgency through cross-border raids, mortar attacks on Beitbridge village, ambushes, casualty evacuations, and Fireforce call-outs, all the way to the 1980 ceasefire and the end of Rhodesia. Accounts are drawn from police, army, and airforce personnel, farmers, and civilians, many of whom have never before shared their stories in print. This is also a book about women in war. About what it meant to be 18 years old, female, and the voice that soldiers called when they had no one else. About loyalty, loss, laughter, and a community that held together under conditions that would have broken most. Comparable to memoirs by Ron Reid-Daly, Peter Stiff, Alexandre Binda, and Chris Cocks, THE VOICE OF 303 brings an entirely new and previously unheard perspective to the literature of the Rhodesian Bush War.For those who were there, this book will bring it all back. For those who were not, it will take you there. A signed limited hardcover edition of 1,000 copies is available directly from the author. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…