Bound for Africa: Cold War Fight Along the Zambezi

by Douglass H. Hubbard Jr.

Bound For Africa is the story of one man's introduction to Africa at a time when much of the continent was in the grips of Cold War skirmishing between the free world and opposing communist forces of China and the Soviet Union. The author, frayed from three years of service in the Vietnam War, traveled to Africa intending to become a rural policeman in a quiet area of what was then Rhodesia. The counterinsurgency war flared soon after, a conflict...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591143942
• ISBN13: 9781591143949
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 8.8"