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New book promotion - Rhodesian Casualties and Air Force Memorials.
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Sep 01, 2009 09:05 PDT
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Message from Prop Geldenhuys follows ......
Please respond direct to e-mail : pe-@lantic.net
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Distributed to ORAFs and Friends
With the 30 year anniversary of Op Uric / Bootlace coming up early
September, Op Miracle early October and memorial services in November,
may I be so bold and ask you to circularise a book promotion for me,
titled Rhodesian War Casualties and Air Force Memorials.
My intention is to 'gauge the market' so as to decide how many copies
to=A0publish. I am presently guessing at only 50 copies, at R200 for the
Black and White edition - approx 340=A0pages. My publisher, John Dovey
of Just Done Productions Publishing,=A0has also recommended a much
smaller full cover 'coffee table' edition which is only about 24 to 30
pages as well. The colour edition has not been costed, but it would be
expected to sell at about R100. Once more accurate numbers are known,
a formal quotation will be made.
The book should interest anyone who has lost a relative or close
friend during the war 1965 - 1980. The 340 page A5 sized book=A0comes
basically in three parts:
- Rolls of Honour in chronological order (note; the index alone runs
to 27 pages);
- Listing of the 40 aircraft shot down or lost on operations but
specifically revisiting the four crash sites found by Bob Manser /
Rick van Malsen in more detail;
- and the last part concerns pictures and brief write-ups of numerous
Memorials / Monuments / Museums / Shrines.
Dr Richard Wood kindly=A0gave me permission to expand on his Roll of
Honour, and also wrote the Foreword:
=A0"The cry down the generations of =91Lest we forget=92 rings even more
poignantly for the survivors of Rhodesia, many of whom are so far from
home and whose country lives only in their memories. If those memories
are not captured and published, Rhodesian society will disappear,
forgotten. Time passes so rapidly. Already a child born in 1980 is 29
years old and has no direct experience of Rhodesia.
In this and his other books, Prop Geldenhuys=A0supplies not just
information of where the memorials are, where names of the lost are to
be found, but he has inspired others to join him in seeking out
aircraft crash sites in Mozambique and solving other mysteries. The
record can never be complete, but, with the aid of the indefatigable
Prop, many gaps in it are filled. His consolidation of the rolls of
honour, compiled from many sources is of value in itself. Certainly
what he has provided will be mined by historians henceforth."
A draft picture of the cover, showing the Operation Miracle Memorial,
is attached. The back cover shows the four white crosses - placed at
the site where the four aircraft shot down.
Those wanting to secure a copy are requested to e-mail me, Prop, on
pe-@lantic.net or phone 031-3066408.
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