Books by Barbara Cole

Barbara Cole has worked as a journalist on newspapers in England, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and South Africa. She was a High Court reporter on the Rhodesia Herald at the start of the bush war and saw many an insurgent, albeit from the safety of the Press bench. Later, when she worked for the publications department of the Ministry of Information, her job involved distributing dreaded wartime communiques from Combined Operations Headquarters telling of the latest incidents. Then, having relocated to South Africa at the end of the war, she spent several years researching and compiling the story of the Rhodesian SAS, one of the most fascinating stories to come out of the war. She tracked down countless SAS men, getting them to recall their many and varied experiences. The fact that secrecy is a way of life with SAS operators, makes this all the more remarkable.