MIKE WEST, Special Forces super-soldier

261pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Ex-Montibus Media, Darling, 2023

ISBN: 9780796115461

Biography of South African soldier Mike West, who served with distinction in the Grey Scouts, the RLI and the SAS during the Rhodesian Bush War. When that war ended he returned to South Africa and joined the Recces.

Hannes Wessels was born in 1956 in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He served in the Bush War and later hunted big game professionally. His books include P.K. van der Byl, African statesman; A Handful of Hard Men and We Dared to Win.