About the Author

Kerrin Cocks, a journalist by profession, has worked in the military-history publishing industry for fourteen years. She conceptualized the Africa@War series (co-published by 30° South and Helion & Co.) In 2009 she scripted, directed, produced and edited the full-length DVD documentary that accompanied Richard Wood’s book Counter-Strike from the Sky: The Rhodesian All-arms Fireforce in the War in the Bush, 1974–1980, which was bought and aired on the New Zealand Documentary Channel. She is the author of Rhodesian Fire Force, 1966–1980 (2015) and co-author of I Won’t be Home Next Summer: Flight Lieutenant R.N. Selley DFC (1917–1941) (2014). She lives in Barberton, South Africa.