Richard Wood BA (Hons) (Rhodes), PhD (Edinburgh), FRHistS was born in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). He was educated at St George's College in Salisbury (Harare), Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, and Edinburgh University, Scotland. He 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 has written three definitive publications on post-Second World War Rhodesian politics: The Welensky Papers; So Far and No Further! and A Matter of Weeks rather than Months. He is a renowned military historian, having served as a territorial soldier in the Rhodesia Regiment, and the Mapping & Research Unit of the Rhodesian Intelligence Corps. He is also author of The War Diaries of André Dennison (1989), Counter-Strike from the Sky: The Rhodesian All-Arms Fireforce in the War in the Bush, 1974-1980 (2009) and Operation Dingo: Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio and Tembué, 1977 (2010). He lives in Durban, South Africa with his wife Carole.
