Mike Graham

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Secret SAS Missions in Africa

Secret SAS Missions in Africa is the first book to cover C Squadron’s secret operations. It chronicles a time of political uncertainty, when British colonial rule was coming to an end and dissident political and tribal factions backed by Russia and China (with their eyes on Africa’s vast mineral wealth) were gaining in strength. These factions posed a constant, deadly threat to Africa’s existing regimes and C Squadron was never short of action in Mozambique and Zambia. There, they made significant gains in helping to subvert Communist inspired uprisings. Highly trained, the SAS men – with nicknames like ‘Horse’, ‘Karate’ and ‘Pig Dog’ – had highly developed effective bush warfare skills, which proved devastatingly effective against their enemies. They achieved results through stealth and cunning; out of all proportion to their small number. Often their foes believed that they were facing rival factions and turned on each other – a deliberate ploy by C Squadron. Michael Graham was called up for National Service in the Rhodesian Army. After being commissioned as an officer he transferred to the Regular Army and joined the Rhodesian SAS (C Squadron), rising to Second-in-Command. Leading a small group of SAS men from all over the world, including Corporal Verne Conchie (aka Pig Dog from Riverton in Southland), Graham paints a graphic and intriguing account of their covert operations, including blowing up bridges and the Russian ship Vladivostok in the Port of Beira, parachuting in to enemy territory and rescuing school children from the hands of terrorists. Played out against the backdrop of Africa’s spectacular landscape, teeming with wildlife, Secret SAS Missions in Africa is the remarkable story of how C Squadron helped to shape Africa’s history at the height of the Cold War.

SAS Action in Africa. Poachers, terrorists and civil war.

C Squadron SAS action in Africa continues in this sequel to Secret Missions that made No 7 on the Booksellers Best Sellers list in August 2018. Based in fact but reading like a thriller Michael Graham - the Major - takes the reader with his team of colourful characters on covert anti-terrorist operations in Angola, Zambia and Mozambique during the Cold War years.