Chris Ash

Chris Ash grew up in the Shetland Isles and studied at Aberdeen University. After a brief and undistinguished dalliance with the British Army (Lovat Scouts and Gordon Highlanders), he drove his Land Rover to South Africa and decided to stay. Since then, he has worked in oil exploration all over Africa and the Middle East. His interest in South African history was sparked by watching Zulu and Breaker Morant as a child, and he has written extensively on Rhodesian history and the Boer War. 'The...See more

Chris Ash grew up in the Shetland Isles and studied at Aberdeen University. After a brief and undistinguished dalliance with the British Army (Lovat Scouts and Gordon Highlanders), he drove his Land Rover to South Africa and decided to stay. Since then, he has worked in oil exploration all over Africa and the Middle East. His interest in South African history was sparked by watching Zulu and Breaker Morant as a child, and he has written extensively on Rhodesian history and the Boer War. 'The Atlas of the Boer War' is his fifth book. He currently works in Iraq, and lives in Johannesburg with a pack of Rhodesian Ridgebacks and an insane Bengal cat. See less