THE SELOUS SCOUTS
TOP SECRET WAR
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The Selous ScoutsBooks currently available in paper and hardback, used - reasonable condition.
Leatherbound Limited Editions are available on request.
This is the story of the Selous Scouts Regiment of Rhodesia which was formed in 1973, and abolished without formal benefit of disbandment when Robert Mugabe's ZANU party took power after the British supervised elections in 1980. Its purpose on formation was the clandestine elimination of ZANLA and ZIPRA terrorists, both within and outside Rhodesia. Their success in this field can be gauged by the fact that Combined Operations, Rhodesia, officially credited them with either directly or indirectly being responsible for the death of 68% of all terrorists killed within Rhodesia during the course of the war . . . losing less than forty Selous Scouts in the process. The ultimate bush-warfare special forces.
While the Regiment was in being, they earned an incredible number of honors and awards gaining the first of only two Grand Crosses of Valor ever awarded, one Commander of the Legion of Merit, seven Officers of the Legion of Merit, nine Silver Crosses of Rhodesia, twenty-nine Bronze Crosses of Rhodesia, ten Members of the Legion of Merit, five Defense Meritorious Medals, eighteen Military Force Commendations, four Meritorious Conduce Medals and one Medal for Meritorious Service. A total of eighty-five awards.
It is normal in Regimental histories for a roll of honor of the dead sustained by a Regiment to be included, as well as a list of persons to whom medals were awarded, but this has not been done in this book. Not due to lack of respect for the honored dead, or because former Selous Scouts do not wish to salute their heroes, but for the more simple and germane reason of fear of reprisals by former terrorists against men who served in the Selous Scouts or their loved ones, particularly former African Selous Scouts.
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