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Peter Stiff
BornSeptember 8, 1933
London, United Kingdom
DiedApril 27, 2016
OccupationAuthor
Children4

Peter Stiff (September 8, 1933 – April 27, 2016) was a London-born South African best-selling author of both fiction and non fiction.

Biography

Peter lived in Rhodesia for 28 years and served as a regular policeman for 20 years in the elite British South Africa Police, from which he retired as a superintendent in 1972. He moved to South Africa in 1980 after the fall of Rhodesia and the rise of Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF.[1][2][3]

Peter was specialized in contemporary warfare and politics in the southern African sub-continent and authored books extensively on the bush war in the former Rhodesia, the ongoing conflict in Angola and the Namibian bush war, on the collapse of Portuguese power in Angola and Mozambique and much else as well.[4][5][6]

Books[7]

  • The Rain Goddess
  • Selous Scouts: Top Secret War
  • See you in November
  • The Covert War[8]
  • Taming the Landmine
  • Nine Days of War
  • The Silent War: South African Recce Operations 1969–1994
  • Cry Zimbabwe: Independence – Twenty Years on
  • Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s

References

  1. ^ "Reading Zimbabwe | Peter Stiff". readingzimbabwe.com. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  2. ^ "PressReader.com – Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  3. ^ Adelmann, Martin (2004). "Quiet Diplomacy: The Reasons behind Mbeki's Zimbabwe Policy". Africa Spectrum. 39 (2): 249–276. ISSN 0002-0397.
  4. ^ "Galago". www.galago.co.za. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  5. ^ Cockington, James (2009-05-20). "A record of regimental ties". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  6. ^ "The Rain Goddess, by Peter Stiff vorgestellt im Namibiana Buchdepot". www.namibiana.de. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  7. ^ "Stiff, Peter". worldcat.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Book Review: The Covert War". defenceWeb. 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2020-11-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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