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Soldier of Fortune: The Deadliest Magazine Ever (with Billy Wayne Davis)

Behind the Bastards

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The Rise and Fall of the Rhodesian Republic

The Rhodesian government decided to turn their national struggle and struggle into a cause celeb for the racist right wing worldwide. Prime Minister Ian Smith called his nation the ultimate bastion against communism on the African continent. As life in the tiny landlocked country grew more difficult a large chunk of the white population fled the country mostly for South Africa. The USSR in China wound up backing separate guerrilla armies and the two fought each other sometimes but they put enough pressure on the embattled white minority that things began to get very dire for the Rhodesian government.

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