Bush War In Rhodesia: The Extraordinary Combat Memoir of a Rhodesian Reconnaissance Specialist

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I could forgive all of that if the story was compelling or it had great detail about the combat operations. That is not the case, in fact all of Crouks' stories are written like I said above, like a drunk in a bar telling the story, short on detail, but you sure know Crouks was part of the action and loved it! He can't tell us enough how he loved it! Croukamp, Dennis E. W. (December 2005). Only My Friends Call Me "Crouks": Rhodesian reconnaissance specialist. Cape Town: Pseudo Publishing. ISBN 978-0-620-29392-1.

Croucamp related his exploits in the Rhodesian War in his book entitled, Only My Friends Call Me “Crouks” / The Bush War In Rhodesia. Croukamp's story answers these questions in a truly tell-all fashion. Croukamp fully admits in the beginning of the book that he is telling the story "warts and all". To the authors credit even the incriminating parts are told. How does a conflict that went on this long, and ultimately a country, end? What is that ending like?

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The train derailment that ultimately lead to many terrorists killed but unfortunately many of the civilian populace too.

Moorcraft, Paul L.; McLaughlin, Peter (April 2008) [1982]. The Rhodesian War: A Military History. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-84415-694-8. Two Vampire fighter-bombers and two Canberra bombers were detailed to circle the area and provide air strikes as needed; the mere presence of these aircraft demoralised many cadres into deserting before they even met the Rhodesian forces. [4] Perhaps that is the most startling element in the book for me: for all of the author's insight and reflection there is no sense of remorse for those that he killed or injured. Maybe this is the answer to my #1 question above in that he and his fellow soldiers were fighting for a homeland - their homeland. In the later stages of the book (and the war) Croukamp comments on how the members of the RLI seemed more ruthless than when he started in the mid sixties. Obviously the average soldier felt threatened and desperate as things dragged on and on. I was fascinated by what felt like his absolute addiction to war and adrenaline fixes (freefall parachuting when not fighting) and the venting of lots of spleen over events that it took him twenty+ years to get to print, and a seemingly astonishing level of recall. As he remarks at the end this was a corporal's war and the whole thing is viewed from this perspective, including inevitably lots of resentment about officers.van Rensburg, A. P. J. (1975). Contemporary Leaders of Africa. Cape Town: HAUM. ISBN 0-7986-0156-6. OCLC 1676807.