Faces of war by Badcock, Peter
Faces of war by Badcock, Peter
Hardcover, ISBN 9780869250815
Publisher: Galaxie Press, Salisbury, Zimbabwe, 1980
Condition: Very Good Hardcover with good DJ-slight wear on DJ-now protected with Cellophane.
Description
Peter Badcock-Walters is a southern African renaissance man: Conceived in the Victoria Falls rain forest in Livingstone (Zambia), he was born in Pretoria, through an accident of travel, and grew up in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Peter is the author and illustrator of six best-selling books, which have sold over 65,000 copies in southern Africa, courtesy of seven mostly agreeable publishers. His illustrations, drawings and paintings hang in collections internationally.
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.
