Peter Badcock -Faces of War (Limited edition)
This is a Limited Edition of 750 numbered and signed copies, of which this is No. 385.
Peter Badcock - Faces of War (Limited edition)
Published: Galaxie Press, Salisbury, 1980
Edition: Limited edition
Condition: Very Good. Bound in full leather and placed in a matching Slipcase. There is Gold gilt on the spine of the book, the spine is a little faded. Publication of 112 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, as well as the slip case. The pages are clean and complete. The text is legible and the binding is strong.
Faces of War, by Peter Badcock and Chas Lotter, 1980, 92 pages of sketches and poems of life in the Rhodesian Security Forces. So much an integral element of Rhodesian life did the olive-khaki-brown camouflage become, that the many-coloured men who wore it blended, in their turn, into a many featured face of war. It is that face that is explored within these pages, arrested in laughter, shadowed in bitter grief; dust brown in exhaustion, lost drifting in thought. A face that splinters and fragments into a thousand more. They were the infantry, the engineers, the policemen, the scouts, the pilots and technicians, the vedettes, the reservists and the rest. The were young, schoolbells not yet a distant echo, and they were old, greyheads who served in other lands before the young were born. They fought a war that officially did not exist, in a land that some said should not be. They were the Security Forces of Rhodesia, they were the faces of war.
