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A books store with a mobile bookshop facility, Reliable books provides a wide range of motivational, self-help, educational, autobiographies and fictional books.

*RHODES - The Race For Africa - Antony Thomas**The BBC Book That Tells The Whole Truth* Not Rhodesian propaganda. Not So...
24/10/2026

*RHODES - The Race For Africa - Antony Thomas*
*The BBC Book That Tells The Whole Truth*
Not Rhodesian propaganda. Not Soviet propaganda. The BBC investigation.
Antony Thomas followed the paper trail - from Cape Town to London to Bulawayo. How Cecil John Rhodes stole a country with a piece of paper, a Maxim gun, and a dream of Cape to Cairo.
1890 Pioneer Column - 200 men riding into Mashonaland with Union Jacks. Thomas shows you what Lobengula really signed, what Rhodes really promised, and how 90 years of Rhodesia started with one man's greed.
400 pages, BBC documentary tie-in, never reprinted in Zimbabwe. This is the book they use at University of Zimbabwe History Department. If you want to understand Rhodes, you start HERE, not with the little myths.
Original 1996 edition - cover shows Pioneer Column entering Rhodesia..
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CONTACT - The Rhodesian Bush War**John Lovett / Operation Contact*The word every Rhodesian soldier lived for. CONTACT! C...
24/10/2026

CONTACT - The Rhodesian Bush War*
*John Lovett / Operation Contact*
The word every Rhodesian soldier lived for. CONTACT! CONTACT! CONTACT! This is not politics. This is not London negotiations. This is contact - RLI stick on fireforce, Selous Scouts tracking, SAS HALO. Written by the men who heard the AKs crack.
Original 1977 Khenty Press green cloth with GOLD LION - the first edition they issued to troops. 240 pages, black & white combat photos, maps of operational areas - Op Hurricane, Op Thrasher, Op Repulse. The photos banned in UK press.
Every copy is heavy, embossed, built for the bush. Gold lion on front - no title needed on shelf, every Rhodesian knows it. The book Rhodesians sent to their sons in South Africa to say "this is what we did."
> Out of print since 1980. Khenty Press closed

*'RHODESIANS NEVER DIE' - Peter Godwin & Ian Hancock - The Bible of the End *The Impact of War and Political Change on W...
24/10/2026

*'RHODESIANS NEVER DIE' - Peter Godwin & Ian Hancock - The Bible of the End *The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia 1970-1980*
Everyone sang the song. These two lived it and then wrote the truth.
Peter Godwin - white Rhodesian schoolboy turned journalist. Ian Hancock - Rhodesian historian. They asked the question no one dared: What happened to whites when the war was lost?
1970 - Rhodesians believed they'd live forever. Parties in Salisbury, farm in Karoi, call-up in JOC. 1980 - passports to South Africa, the list for the last flight, Ian Smith crying at the airport.
This book is not war stories. It's psychology. Why did whites stay? Why did they believe Smith? How did sanctions, conscription, and body bags change the braaivleis mentality? The only academic book that explains the white tribe of Rhodesia without propaganda.
Oxford-published. Universities worldwide use it as THE textbook. First Baobab edition in Zimbabwe - now out of print.
*The must-have for any Rhodesiana collection -

*CECIL RHODES and His Time - Apollon Davidson* *Progress Publishers Moscow - The Book Rhodesians BANNED*Every other Rhod...
24/10/2026

*CECIL RHODES and His Time - Apollon Davidson*
*Progress Publishers Moscow - The Book Rhodesians BANNED*
Every other Rhodes book says Rhodes was a hero. This one says he was a thief. And it was printed in Moscow.
Apollon Davidson - Soviet Africa's top historian - dug into British archives the Rhodesians didn't want you to see. How Rhodes tricked Lobengula. How he stole the gold. How the Ndebele and Shona fought back. That painting on the cover? That's the real 1896 wcilRhodesAndHisTime

*A SHORT THOUSAND YEARS: The End of Rhodesia's Rebellion - Paul L. Moorcraft (1979)* The last days of white Rhodesia, wr...
24/10/2026

*A SHORT THOUSAND YEARS: The End of Rhodesia's Rebellion - Paul L. Moorcraft (1979)*
The last days of white Rhodesia, written while the bullets were still flying.
Paul Moorcraft was at Sandhurst Military Academy, then came to Rhodesia as a war correspondent. He lived in Salisbury, drank with Selous Scouts, sat with Ian Smith's ministers, and watched the country collapse from inside.
1979 - UDI is dead, Muzorewa is PM for 3 months, Mugabe is in the bush, and the British are coming back to sell the country. Moorcraft tells you how the Rhodesian Front imploded, how the generals fought the politicians, and how Rhodesia committed su***de.
First edition 1979 - written BEFORE independence. No hindsight. Raw. Angry. Banned by some.
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> 248 pages, maps, photos of last days. Green cloth, gilt letters - classic Rhodesian edition.

*Why this one is different from other Rhodesiana:*
- Only book written IN Salisbury during 1979 collapse
- Moorcraft later became top war reporter - this was his first Rhodesia book
- Chapter on Ken Flower CIO, ZANLA infiltration - details you won't find elsewhere

*THE BATTLE FOR ZIMBABWE - Geoff Hill*> The battle that created Zimbabwe. Not the bush war - the political war in Lancas...
24/10/2026

*THE BATTLE FOR ZIMBABWE - Geoff Hill*
> The battle that created Zimbabwe. Not the bush war - the political war in Lancaster House, London. How Mugabe beat Nkomo, how Thatcher betrayed Rhodesia, how ZANU took power.
Geoff Hill was inside - Daily Telegraph correspondent who lived it. No propaganda. Just what really happened 1979-1980.
If you want to understand why Zimbabwe is what it is today, start here.
*$35

THE BOOK EVERY ZIMBABWEAN MUST READ 🇿🇼WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN - Peter GodwinBorn in Zimbabwe. Family farm taken. F...
21/10/2026

THE BOOK EVERY ZIMBABWEAN MUST READ 🇿🇼

WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN - Peter Godwin

Born in Zimbabwe. Family farm taken. Father dying. Country collapsing.

Peter Godwin comes home to a Zimbabwe in chaos - and tells the story we all lived but never wrote down.

'A moving meditation on family and bravery amid disaster, madness and betrayal' - Sunday Times

For:
✓ Every Zimbabwean in diaspora
✓ Every farmer who remembers
✓ Every family who stayed
✓ Anyone who wants to understand Zimbabwe

FOR THE ROMANCE & MYSTERY CROWD:* *WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING - Delia Owens* _No. 1 New York Times Bestseller - Reese's Boo...
21/10/2026

FOR THE ROMANCE & MYSTERY CROWD:*

*WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING - Delia Owens*
_No. 1 New York Times Bestseller - Reese's Book Club - OVER 18 MILLION COPIES SOLD_

*she was abandoned at 6. Raised by the marsh. Accused of murder.

A girl. A marsh. A murder. A love story you will never forget.

✓ Murder mystery
✓ Heartbreaking love story
✓ The movie everyone is watching

If you loved "It Ends With Us" you will OBSESS over this.

Harare - $15

HOLDING A GRUDGE IS LIKE DRINKING POISON AND WAITING FOR THE OTHER PERSON TO DIE. 💔DO YOURSELF A FAVOR... FORGIVE - Joyc...
21/10/2026

HOLDING A GRUDGE IS LIKE DRINKING POISON AND WAITING FOR THE OTHER PERSON TO DIE. 💔

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR... FORGIVE - Joyce Meyer
#1 New York Times Bestseller

Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through Forgiveness

This book will teach you:
✓ How to forgive when it still hurts
✓ How to stop the pain from controlling you
✓ How to heal and move forward

For every woman carrying pain, betrayal, church hurt, or family wounds.

Harare - $15

RARE RHODESIANA ALERT 🇿🇼📚THE QUIET MAN - Phillipa BerlynBiography of Ian Douglas Smith, Prime Minister of RhodesiaThe de...
21/10/2026

RARE RHODESIANA ALERT 🇿🇼📚

THE QUIET MAN - Phillipa Berlyn
Biography of Ian Douglas Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia

The definitive biography of the man who dominated Rhodesian politics. From his farm to UDI.

A must-have for:
✓ Rhodesiana collectors
✓ History students
✓ Anyone who wants to understand Zimbabwean history

Original vintage edition - authentic wear as pictured.

Harare - $30

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