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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 257 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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    • 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 71 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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    • 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 298 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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    • 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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    • 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 79 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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    • 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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    • 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 11 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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    • 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 67 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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    • 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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    • Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

    • An African Childhood
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

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    • Dictatorland

    • The Men Who Stole Africa
    • By: Paul Kenyon
    • Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
    • Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces....

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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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    • White Malice

    • The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
    • By: Susan Williams
    • Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
    • Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....

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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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    • African History

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: John Parker, Richard Rathbone
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • This VSI, the first concise work of its kind, will prove essential for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history....

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    • How Can Man Die Better

    • The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed
    • By: Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook, Brigadier David Keenan - foreword
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • On January 22, 1879, a massive Zulu host attacked the British Army's 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana. It was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War and a disastrous defeat for the colonial power....

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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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    • Labyrinth of Kingdoms

    • 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa
    • By: Steve Kemper
    • Narrated by: Ed Phillips
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 19-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements....

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