Bøker av Peter Baxter

This book tells the story of the international intervention that took place in Somalia, the successes, failures and lessons learned.

Peter Baxter takes a new approach to the history of the Franklin Expedition, from the perspective of John Rae and Lady Franklin, and their embroiled dispute over what fate the crew met.

Providing a history of the SAAF in the Border War, an extensive selection of rare photographs, and a comprehensive section on camouflage and markings and colour aircraft profiles.

The work covers the emergence and growth of Mau Mau, and the strategies applied by the British to confront and nullify what was in reality a tactically inexpert, but nonetheless powerfully symbolic black expression of political violence.

The Selous Scouts were to write their name into the annals of military history as one of the finest counterinsurgency units of all time, through their innovative pseudo-guerrilla tactics, brilliant reconnaissance operations and daring flying-column raids.

Examining the past and present relationship of France with her erstwhile African colonial possessions, Operation Barracuda, Operations Almandin I, II and II, Operation Boali and the various regional, international and European regional interventions feature.