Group Captain Tol Janeke writes in the introduction:

"... He has painstakingly and methodically recorded the history, not only of the airmen who were privileged to fly the aircraft involved in the air strikes, but so many others. 

... Here are the names of soldiers, policemen and internal affairs, men and women who added to the often unheralded courage behind the exciting story of these air strikes. The troops on the ground and those that flew in our aircraft with us, some of whom hated leaving their own familiar environment on the ground and in the bush. .....

To those historians and collectors of militaria, this book is one that fills in much detail. 

....... It shows how operations started slowly and built up to a situation where virtually the entire country became involved. The mass of little numbered dots on the maps shows the position of widespread strikes in all the operational areas." 

By author of Rhodesian Air Force Operations: With Air Strike Log
A lesson in War, and life, results in "to the Victor, the spoils". In other words, the Government in power writes its own so-called 'history'. Where this is lacking, especially in Africa, country name changes occur, followed by the hijacking of City, town and even street names. So, before long, places and names like Rhodesia and even Pretoria will fade into the past (dare I say history?). My factstory biography thus covers the past 100 years as a true Geldenhuys heritage - - from the Anglo-Boer war days of my grandfather Jannie (Oudad), my father Preller's East African Campaign during World War II - in forgotten Abyssinia and Eritrea I hasten to add, my own family and friends' Rhodesian War experiences, and my twilight years after a very rewarding second career with Masonite.

ISBN 978-1-9201-6977-0, 2007. Softback, 334 pages.

Jan Geldenhuys fought on the Western Front of the Orange Free State during the 1899 -1902 Boer War (more commonly called the South African War or Anglo-Boer War overseas).

The diary describes conditions in the Indian concentration camps, with day-by-day accounts recorded to the latter part of November 1902 when prisoners were eventually returned to South Africa.

Currently available in CD format only (the book is still 'work in progress')

Foreword by Dr JRT Wood -

The cry down the generations of ‘Lest we forget’ rings even more poignantly for the survivors of Rhodesia, many of whom are so far from home and whose country lives only in their memories. If those memories are not captured and published, Rhodesian society will disappear, forgotten. Time passes so rapidly. Already a child born in 1980 is 29 years old and has no direct experience of Rhodesia.

In this and his other books, Prop Geldenhuys supplies not just information of where the memorials are, where names of the lost are to be found, but he has inspired others to join him in seeking out aircraft crash sites in Mozambique and solving other mysteries. The record can never be complete, but, with the aid of the indefatigable Prop, many gaps in it are filled. His consolidation of the rolls of honour, compiled from many sources is of value in itself. Certainly what he has provided will be mined by historians henceforth.