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Green leader : Operation Gatling : the Rhodesian military's response to the Viscount tragedy

Title: Green leader : Operation Gatling : the Rhodesian military's response to the Viscount tragedy / Ian Pringle.
Author: Pringle, Ian.
Publication: Solihull, England : Helion & Company, 2015.

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Description

xxxi, 242 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits (some in colour); 24 cm

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Military history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1 Viscount tragedy -- 1 Britain takes sides -- 2 Unholy grail -- 3 Flame Lily -- 4 Nyaminyami.

Call Number

Sc E 16-651

ISBN

9781909982932
1909982938

LCCN

2015431302

OCLC

914218217

Author

Pringle, Ian.

Title

Green leader : Operation Gatling : the Rhodesian military's response to the Viscount tragedy / Ian Pringle.

Publisher

Solihull, England : Helion & Company, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1965-1980

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-651

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