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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his African childhood friends, before joining the army. A quiet, introspective thinker, Andre started out as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where he was engaged in fireforce combat operations. He then rejoined the SAS.
Wounded 13 times, his operational record is exceptional even by the tough standards that existed at the time. He emerged as the SAS officer par excellence; beloved by his men, displaying extraordinary calmness, courage, and audacious cunning during a host of extremely dangerous operations. Andre writes vividly about his experiences, his emotions, and his state of mind during the war, and reflects candidly on what he learned and how war has shaped his life since.
In addition to Andre's personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War.
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- James Higham
- 23-07-23
Great book. Poor narration
Great first accounts of the struggle to save the beautiful country that was Rhodesia.
Very poor narration with embarrassing mispronunciation
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- Max Powell
- 18-04-20
brilliant
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well narrated honest and selling the truth about forgotten times , god bless RSF.
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- Iolis
- 15-04-20
A Remarkable Book
There are numerous books recounting the 20-year struggle of Rhodesians to maintain a strong, viable and progressive country despite everything the world threw at them yet there are only two audiobooks that I know of that recount the experiences of such brave men. Such a pity that this important account was ruined by narration so poor that it must have been contrived. with some hilarious mispronouncements of place names and military terms.
Wessels and Scheepers put a lot into their book, the least the publishers could have done is produce a narrator to give it the respect it deserves.
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- roland
- 04-01-22
Mono-tone narrator needs to find a new job!
Great book completed ruined by the worst narrator possible. He obviously didn’t like the book or respect the heroes portrayed within it.
Audible, you can do better!
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- Mr A.R.Gracie
- 23-01-22
Interesting book massacred by such poor reading
Such a pity that this book was read with pronunciation that was so pitifully poor, clearly ill-prepared and so thoroughly uninformed!
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- John A Powell
- 06-09-23
Eye opening content
This story highlights the corruption by many governments even religious organisations
The cry of Black Lives Matter should be all lives matter ! These recounts of some very brave men illustrates that the black people were the Largest enemy of the black populace
Very Strong memories, well narrated, very sad and made me feel angry how various authorities lied and double crossed everyone including their own people!!
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- Andrew
- 20-03-21
Narrarator disappointing.
The narrators pronunciation of local words and names is terrible. Some understanding of how to pronounce the names would have helped a lot. I enjoy Hannes Wessels books to read but this audio book was disappointing.
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- Bruce Carnegie
- 18-02-23
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Another fantastic account of the ferocious Rhodesia / Zimbabwe conflict and the respect of both sides.
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- Ratters33
- 12-03-24
Great story, great book, loads of insight and detail.
Such a pity the AI does not capture basic pronunciation of a lot of the words… it slightly taints the listening pleasure of what is otherwise an amazing story of our Rhodie heros! Long may their legacies live on 😎
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- john lockwood
- 11-11-22
Great insight to what really happened in Rhodesia
unfortunately absolutely spoiled by such bad pronounced places and military units . Get a person who at least knows how to pronounce correctly
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