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Date Posted: 21:41:12 03/24/04 Wed
Author: Bill Rhodesiawassuper
Subject: Chris Cocks bestsellers FireForce and Survival Course being re-printed as one.

Chris Cocks bestsellers FireForce and Survival Course being re-printed as one.

There are two kinds of wars: those fought on battlefields with guns and bombs, waged by elders against their enemies; and those fought within a man�s soul with conscience and remorse. The one is external, a public war for all the world to witness; the other intensely private, glimpsed at by only a few.
Innocent young men are molded into soldiers by ingenious craftsmen, through a process of �dehumanize and reconstruct� into professional killing machines. But in times of peace that process is never reversed, i.e. �deconstruct and re-humanize� into functioning members of society.

Chris Cocks� journey begins with Fireforce in which he catalogues his three years� combat experience in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry. His naivet� destroyed by basic training he enters a unit often compared to the French Foreign Legion. This compelling account tells of the combat method developed by the Rhodesians, and perfected by the RLI, involving airborne troops parachuted into action against the never-ending tide of the guerrilla enemy. The mental and physical strain on a Fireforce soldier was almost unbearable � with ground troops always in desperately short supply, the same men were at times dropped into as many as three contacts a day.

Although Fireforce has been written with an unforgettable pathos and humour, it tells of face-to-face combat in the bush and death at point-blank range. It is a book, which does nothing to glamorize or glorify war.

Survival Course explores the brutal reality faced by a soldier when he realizes he�s now just an ordinary man � no longer the hero, misunderstood by most and alone in his quest for the �normality� of civilian life. It is a downward spiral into self-recrimination and guilt, the nightmares eased only by the escapism of drug and alcohol abuse. But ultimately the battle is a story of hope and re-awakening.

Although these two books are completely juxtaposed their essence is so intertwined that one should not be perceived in isolation of the other, for no war leaves a soldier unscarred and no self-destruction is without source.

Chris is in the process of re-writing both titles which will include new stories and pictures. It�s being printed in Canada under Rhodesiawassuper. www.Rhodesiawassuper.com

First 500 copies will be available autographed. Don't be disappointed and add yourself to the want list. E-mail Rhodesia@shaw.ca and in the subject line place. ADD TO WANT LIST FOR FIREFORCE, SURVIVAL COURSE.

We are shooting for a release date of July 2004 with a retail of $39.95

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