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  • 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

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 1 Recce, volume 2

    Behind Enemy Lines

    1 Recce: Behind Enemy Lines takes the reader into the 'inner sanctum' of one of the sharpest, most versatile and deadliest specialist units in the former South African Defence Force. In their own words, Recce operators recount some of the life-threatening operations they conducted under great secrecy in Angola, Rhodesia and Mozambique during the late 1970s. Operators sweat in aircraft or in ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • 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

  • Spider Zero Seven

    by Mike Borlace ...
    Silver Cross recipient, Mike Borlace is considered to be one of the most experienced combat helicopter pilots of recent times. Now he collates his experiences in this compelling wartime memoir set against the backdrop of the civil war fought in Rhodesia during the 1970s.Helicopters were a vital component of the small Rhodesian Defence Force and as part of special forces, Borlace and his fellow ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • 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

  • Beyond No Mean Soldier

    The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator

    The SAS veteran, mercenary and author of No Mean Soldier looks back on a life of combat in this revised and expanded edition of his classic memoir.Peter McAleese's No Mean Soldier set the bar for the modern military memoir. This completely revised and expanded edition sees a philosophical McAleese revisiting his time with Britain's Parachute Regiment, the SAS, Rhodesia's SAS and the South African ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bush War Operator

    Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond

    by A. J. Balaam ...
    "The finest account I've read on the Selous Scouts . . . Andy Balaam tells it like it was—the fear, the terror, the adrenaline highs of combat in the bush." —Chris Cocks, bestselling author of FireforceFrom the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rhodesia, from the bars in Port St Johns in the Transkei to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Special Branch War

    Slaughter in the Rhodesian Bush. Southern Matabeleland, 1976-1980

    by Ed Bird ...
    This searing account primarily covers Ed Bird's Special Branch (SB) service in the Beitbridge area of southern Matabeleland, 1976-1980, encompassing Operations Repulse and Tangent of the bitter Rhodesian 'bush war'.Joining the British South Africa Police (BSAP) in 1964, Bird cut his teeth on Selous Scouts 'pseudo' operations during Operation Hurricane in 1974-1976, so was well equipped to deal ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Dared to Win

    The SAS in Rhodesia

    A memoir from a Special Forces fighter about his experiences in the Rhodesian War and how combat has shaped his life.Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his African childhood friends, before joining the army. A quiet, introspective thinker, Andre started out as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Walk Against The Stream

    A Rhodesian National Service Officer's Story of the Bush War

    The experiences of a young soldier on the frontlines of the Rhodesian Bush War are vividly recounted in this personal memoir.In A Walk Against the Stream, Tony Ballinger tells of his eighteen months of compulsory service as a young national service officer in the Rhodesian army. Stationed in Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, he faced down enemy territory just across the Zambezi river in Zambia.Initially ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Handful of Hard Men

    The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

    A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reputation as a military maestro.During the West's great transition into the post-colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s, fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper governance. During this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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