Selous Scouts

[CannibalSquirel]

I´m looking for some good photos of the ex rhodesian Selous Scouts .

Anyone? :hug:

[Trident-za]

Are you looking for internet photos, or will a book be OK?

[CannibalSquirel]

A book would be fine.

Anything is good.

[hist2004]

A book would be fine.

Anything is good.

Try these links:

http://members.tripod.com/selousscouts/home_page.htm

http://home.wanadoo.nl/rhodesia/sscouts.htm

Regards,
Hist2004

[Uncle Sam]

Selous Scouts 1 (http://members.tripod.com/selousscouts/selous_scouts_galleries.htm)

Selous Scouts 2 (http://home.wanadoo.nl/rhodesia/sscouts.htm)

[CannibalSquirel]

Already knew those links... :oops:

[Uncle Sam]

There's really not alot on the internet. Books might be the way to go.

http://www.xbox-connection.com/hostedimages/bil140.jpg

[csqnsas]

Cannibalsquirel,

The 2 books you want are Pamwe Chete: The Legend of the Selous Scouts and Selous Scouts: Rhodesian War - A Pictorial Account .

However most of the photos you see, including the majority from the http://members.tripod.com/selousscouts/ site are only of training and are posed for the press. Even the pictures from the newspaper article headed The Selouse Scout shows no Scouts.

Even after reading the books you need to read "all' the books available about the Rhodesian war and if you are lucky know people who actually faught there. As well cross reference with the newer books such as "Secret War' by Peter Stiff and also follow the news about South African "black" ops and Chem and Bio warefare. The list goes on and on.

The few true pictures are of poor quality. Remember on there real OPs even their own servicemen could not enter their areas of operation. In Rhodesian slang they were "frozen" to regular forces- hence one of the names for the scouts was the Eskimos.

[Trident-za]

Cannibalsquirel,

The 2 books you want are Pamwe Chete: The Legend of the Selous Scouts and Selous Scouts: Rhodesian War - A Pictorial Account .

However most of the photos you see, including the majority from the http://members.tripod.com/selousscouts/ site are only of training and are posed for the press. Even the pictures from the newspaper article headed The Selouse Scout shows no Scouts.

Even after reading the books you need to read "all' the books available about the Rhodesian war and if you are lucky know people who actually faught there. As well cross reference with the newer books such as "Secret War' by Peter Stiff and also follow the news about South African "black" ops and Chem and Bio warefare. The list goes on and on.

The few true pictures are of poor quality. Remember on there real OPs even their own servicemen could not enter their areas of operation. In Rhodesian slang they were "frozen" to regular forces- hence one of the names for the scouts was the Eskimos.

Agreed 100% with all you wrote. Some of the books mentioned above are excelllent general resources but its damn hard to find photos and/or unbiased books. The ones by Col Ron Reid Daly , i.e. "Pamwe Chete: The Legend of the Selous Scouts" and "Selous Scouts : top secret war
" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0620057718/ref=pd_sbs_b_2/104-4471701-7853538?v=glance&s=books, were (to an outsider) very good. Tough guys, f**king tough job....[/url]

[Haiw]

Use the search function...I'm pretty sure there was a thread about this a while back.