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  • An Unpopular War

    From afkak to bosbefok

    by JH Thompson ...
    In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of young men were called up for military service, most of them going through extreme physical training and many being sent to fight the war in northern Namibia and Angola. This book is a collection of reflections and memories of that time, collected by JH Thompson, who interviewed numerous former National Servicemen. Contributors include ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Troepie: From Call-Up to Camps

    by Cameron Blake ...
    For over half a million white South African males conscripted before 1994, National Service was a compulsory, demanding and intense experience that had a powerful impact on them. This book is a compilation of recollections by more than forty former conscripts about their time in the South African Defence Force. The chapters take you through the sequence of a National Serviceman’s career: receiving ... Read more

    $9.09 USD

  • Zulu Zulu Foxtrot

    To Hell and Back with Koevoet

    by Arn Durand ...
    ‘Both my guns are jammed. I’m dead meat, a sitting duck. All the insurgent has to do is pull the trigger of his RPG-7 rocket launcher. My heart surges, pumping pure adrenalin through my body and my mind.’ Arn Durand was a member of Koevoet, the most deadly fighting force involved in the Border War. Their task was to seek and destroy SWAPO PLAN insurgents. Zulu Zulu Foxtrot is an explosive account ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • At The Front

    A General's Account Of South Africa's Border War

    General Jannie Geldenhuys is widely regarded as one of the leading military commanders South Africa has produced. As Chief of the South African Defence Force from 1985 to 1990, he brought his experience to bear on the Border War in Namibia, and was part of the negotiating team that brought an end to the conflict in 1989. In this completely revised and updated edition, Geldenhuys reflects on a ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zulu Zulu Golf

    Life and Death with Koevoet

    by Arn Durand ...
    ‘There is no dignity in death. Six bodies are piled up in front of me, shot to shit. I can see that their bones are white, their blood is red and their brains are yellow. I’ve done this; I’ve helped to kill them.’ A unit of the South African Police, Koevoet was the most deadly fighting force involved in the Border War. This is the story of Arn Durand’s first years with Koevoet, from 1982 to 1983. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • 32 Battalion

    The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit

    by Piet Nortje ...
    Every war has at least one - a unit so different, so daring, that it becomes the stuff of which legends are made and heroes are born. Among the South African forces fighting in Angola from 1975 to 1989, that unit was 32 Battalion. Founded in utmost secrecy from the vanquished remnants of a foreign rebel movement, undefeated in 12 years of front-line battle, feared by enemies that included both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Battle for Cassinga

    South Africa's Controversial Cross-Border Raid, Angola 1978

    Series Book 3 - Africa@War
    Battle for Cassinga is written as a firsthand account by an ordinary South African paratrooper who was at the 1978 assault on the Angolan headquarters of PLAN, the armed wing of SWAPO. The book relates why the South African government took the political risk in attacking the fortress in an external operation and examines the SWAPO claims that Cassinga was a refugee camp guarded by a few PLAN ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Africa Lost

    Rhodesia's COIN Killing Machine

    Series series SOFREP
    US military veteran and historian Dan Tharp's Africa Lost tells the inside story of some of the greatest special operators you've never heard of.Some of the most explosive combat in Special Operations history is almost completely unknown to the Western World. Everyone knows about Navy SEALs and Green Berets but nobody knows about the deep recce, sabotage, and direct action missions conducted by ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Koevoet

    Experiencing South Africa's Deadly Bush War

    by Jim Hooper ...
    Koevoet! has been an global bestseller since its release over 20 years ago. This new edition goes far beyond the original in capturing the courage, fear and intensity of South Africa's deadly bush war. Never before had an outsider been given unrestricted access to Koevoet, the elite South West African Police counterinsurgency unit - also known as Operation K and officially as the South West Africa ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barrel of a Gun

    A War Correspondent's Misspent Moments in Combat

    by Al J. Venter ...
    A colorful, wide-ranging memoir of danger and adventure in wars around the world.Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia . . .So begins this memoir of a career spent examining warfare—on the ground and as the bullets are flying. While many are intrigued by these violent conflicts, Al Venter feels compelled to see them in person, preferably at the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zulu Foxtrot Reloaded

    Zulu Zulu Golf, Zulu Zulu Foxtrot and Zulu Foxtrot Reloaded., #1

    by Arn Durand ...
    Series Book 1 - Zulu Zulu Golf, Zulu Zulu Foxtrot and Zulu Foxtrot Reloaded.
    Zulu Foxtrot Reloaded covers Durand's last two of six years with the unit. Once again patrols, ambushes and contacts, situations of certain death, dealings with the enemy and relationships with Ovambo colleagues. Except now, what it was also like to be a killing machine in the heat of battle while becoming a loving husband and father and having to alternate mindset between surviving the murder and ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1 Recce

    The night belongs to us

    1 Recce. One of the sharpest, most versatile and deadliest specialist units in the South African Defence Force. These men - superfit and unbelievably tough - were dauntless. Time and again they put their lives on the line in covert operations that were mostly conducted under the cover of night, far behind enemy lines. For decades, the participants have kept silent about these secret missions. Now, ... Read more

    $14.49 USD