Out of Action: By Chris Cooks. Johannesburg: 30 Degrees South Publishers 1999; pp 278.
| dc.contributor.author | Makombe, Tafirenyika | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-26T13:56:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-26T13:56:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Chris Cocks’ (2008) Out of action is the sequel to his (1988) Fireforce – one man’s war in the Rhodesian Light Infantry. In Fireforce the writer narrates his life in the Rhodesian Light Infantry. In Out of action the twenty-one year old Cocks explains his double role as civilian and police reservist when he writes: “A few months before I had been Lance-Corporal Cocks. Now I was Police Reservist Cocks, attempting to begin a civilian career in agriculture” (Cocks, 2008, p. 24). In reality, however, there is no distinction between the two roles as a lance-corporal and police reservist because the Rhodesian police was militarised. In the army Cocks was a stick leader while in the police he is leader of a Police Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU). The PATU was a paramilitary specialist unit in the British South African Police (BSAP) while a stick was a four to six-man unit or battle group in the Rhodesian Army. For both units their call was to respond to guerrilla sightings and engage them in combat. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Makombe, T. (2013). Out of Action: By Chris Cooks. Johannesburg: 30 Degrees South Publishers 1999; pp 278. Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(2): 185-187. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2026-7215 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1404 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Namibia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Chris Cooks | en_US |
| dc.subject | Johannesburg | en_US |
| dc.title | Out of Action: By Chris Cooks. Johannesburg: 30 Degrees South Publishers 1999; pp 278. | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |