OPERATION DINGO: Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio and Tembue' 1977 (Africa at War)
Richard Wood, BA (Hons) (Rhodes), PhD (Edinburgh), FRHistS was a Commonwealth scholar and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Research Fellow at the University of Rhodesia and a Professor of History at the University of Durban-Westville. He is the foremost historian and researcher on the Rhodesia in the decades following World War II and, with exclusive access to the hitherto closed papers of Ian Smith, has written three definitive publications: 'The Welensky Papers', 'So Far and No Further!' and 'A Matter of Weeks Rather than Months'. He has published 'The War Diaries of Andre Dennison' (1989) and 'Counter-Strike from the Sky' (2009), numerous articles, conference papers and chapters in books. He has a lifelong interest in matters military, rugby and fly-fishing. He lives in Durban, South Africa with his wife Carole.