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  • A Handful of Hard Men cover art

    • A Handful of Hard Men

    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • Rorke's Drift

    • By: Adrian Greaves
    • Narrated by: Paul Herzberg
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

    • On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling more than 1,200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift....

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    • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings

    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • Cobalt Red

    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings

    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • Mukiwa

    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings

    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

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    • We Dared to Win

    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings

    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • The Boer War

    • By: Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Churchill tells the story of how he escaped and made a daring overland crossing, travelling only at night to avoid detection....

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    • The Lumumba Plot

    • The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
    • By: Stuart A. Reid
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....

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    • Carthage Must Be Destroyed

    • The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
    • By: Richard Miles
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....

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    • Congo Mercenary

    • By: Mike Hoare
    • Narrated by: Mike Hoare
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Col. Mike Hoare tells how his force of mercenaries, 5 Commando, put down a Comunist-backed rebel uprising in the Congo....

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    • A Savage War of Peace

    • Algeria 1954-1962
    • By: Alistair Horne
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one....

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    • Bush War Operator

    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings

    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • The Boer War

    • By: Martin Bossenbroek
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • In The Boer War, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war....

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    • Day of the Rangers

    • The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On
    • By: Leigh Neville, Matt Eversmann - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The mission was meant to be over within the hour. They quickly found themselves under heavy fire, and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down....

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    • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

    • A Memoir of Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

    • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....

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    • Scribbling the Cat

    • Travels with an African Soldier
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger"....

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    • Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940-41

    • Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa
    • By: Robert Forczyk
    • Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Robert Forczyk covers the development of armored warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941....

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