Text by Abbott and Botham, plates by Mike Chappell, osprey Pub. Ltd., London, 1986, 48pp, illus., 0.95. This book is a brief overview of the Rhodesian War up through the election of Robert Mugabe, and of the units and equipment involved in the war. In the first part of the book, a short account of the war itself is given, with a description of the means and plans employed by both sides. The balance of the book describes the organization, units, and operations of the units of both the Security Forces and the Patriotic Front Forces engaged during the war. The color plates and the extensive photographic coverage (primarily of Security Forces) provide much arcane detail of the protagonists' equipment, while the text provides much insight as to how this war was fought. This is primarily of interest to the gamer of modern small unit actions, and is recommended. RAFM 25mm ACW Frontier 25mm Crimean War Campaign Figures 25mm 16th Century Lyzard's Grin 1/76 scale WWII Heavy Weapons Thistle and Rose 15mm Dark Ages RAFM 25mm Hellenistic Greece and Imperial Romans Frontier Miniatures Redesigns Victorian Colonial Range ESCI 1/72 scale Napoleonic British Infantry at Waterloo Battle Honours Napoleonic 15mm Line Red Wing Miniatures Boxer Rebellion Dixon 15mm Marlburians Stone Mountain 15mm ACW Naval Guns Life Like Products Terrain GDW WWII Rules: Command Decision Osprey Booklet #179: ACW Staff, Specialist, and Maritime Services Osprey Booklet #181: Austrian Napoleonic Cavalry #2 Osprey Booklet #183: Modern Africa Wars 1: Rhodesia 1965-1980 Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. VII #4 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1987 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com