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Retribution
The moment the SAM 7 missile left its launch tube, the political solution to end the Rhodesian bush war faltered.
After thirteen long years, the brutal bush war had escalated as the protagonists crystallised their opposing beliefs drawing the country and its people towards the precipice of despair.
Compassion, decency and sentimentality had no place there. The innocent civilians caught in the middle were the true victims.
A premeditated act of terrorism, taking only a few minutes to execute, brought down a civilian passenger plane. It triggered a series of dramatic and fateful events for retribution to be exacted on the guerrilla forces.
But to what end?
After thirteen long years, the brutal bush war had escalated as the protagonists crystallised their opposing beliefs drawing the country and its people towards the precipice of despair.
Compassion, decency and sentimentality had no place there. The innocent civilians caught in the middle were the true victims.
A premeditated act of terrorism, taking only a few minutes to execute, brought down a civilian passenger plane. It triggered a series of dramatic and fateful events for retribution to be exacted on the guerrilla forces.
But to what end?
392 pages, Paperback
First published February 6, 2014
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John M. Frame
92 books224 followersFor his education, Frame received degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), Westminster Theological Seminary (B.D.), Yale University (A.M. and M.Phil., though he was working on a doctorate and admits his own failure to complete his dissertation), and Belhaven College (D.D.). He has served on the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary and was a founding faculty member of their California campus. He currently (as of 2022) teaches Apologetics and The History of Philosophy and Christian thought at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, FL.
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December 9, 2018
Accurate historical fiction
This review is from: Retribution (Kindle Edition)
This is a good story of military action and some politics from the Rhodesian Bush war in the late 1970's. It develops interesting characters on both sides of the conflict. When Rhodesia tried to prevent the post-colonial disaster occurring in other African states, it seemed at first that they might be successful. But they ended up fighting not just the Russian and Chinese backed terrorists, but most of the world as well. Attitudes understandably hardened. By the late 70's it was hopeless. This novel does a good job of portraying that. Now that we see the results of the brutal dictatorship that followed, we can also see that the Western world, the United Nations, the World Council of Churches, and many, many others have hands covered in innocent blood.
This review is from: Retribution (Kindle Edition)
This is a good story of military action and some politics from the Rhodesian Bush war in the late 1970's. It develops interesting characters on both sides of the conflict. When Rhodesia tried to prevent the post-colonial disaster occurring in other African states, it seemed at first that they might be successful. But they ended up fighting not just the Russian and Chinese backed terrorists, but most of the world as well. Attitudes understandably hardened. By the late 70's it was hopeless. This novel does a good job of portraying that. Now that we see the results of the brutal dictatorship that followed, we can also see that the Western world, the United Nations, the World Council of Churches, and many, many others have hands covered in innocent blood.
December 21, 2014
Tragic Africanwar novel
The story is well told, Africa in bloody transition. certainly the author understood the feel of hopelessness of the people of Rhodesia, black and white.
The story is well told, Africa in bloody transition. certainly the author understood the feel of hopelessness of the people of Rhodesia, black and white.
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