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African Aviation Series No. 9 RHODESIAN AIR FORCE – The Sanctions Busters Winston Brent ISBN 0958438811   This book records many of the Sanctions Busting methods used by the Rhodesian Air Force in acquiring aircraft and equipment to maintain the high level of efficiency for which they were known. The author gives in-depth accounts of how some aircraft were obtained. He gives details of all the known aircraft which were flown and includes a comprehensive Roll of Honour. It is A4 with 192 pages and 12 pages in colour and plenty of B & W photographs. It was published in Hard cover and Soft cover. REVIEW The Rhodesian Air Force’s history has been exhaustively covered in several publications in the recent past, and this title adds yet another. The book offers a short story of the establishment of the Rhodesian Air Force up to the advent of majority rule in 1980. The role of the South African Air Force and South African Police in assisting their Rhodesian compatriots is detailed and extensive use is made of photographs to illustrate the text throughout. There is a lengthy reference sections relating the histories and eventual fates of all Rhodesian Air Force aircraft, as well as a complete Roll of Honour and aircraft crash-log. The book’s sub-title “The Sanctions Busters” is somewhat misleading though, as there is only a single chapter dealing with the sanctions-busting operations.