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  • South African Special Forces

    by Robert Pitta, Jeff Fannell ...
    Series Book 47 - Elite
    This book provides a highly detailed account of the history, organisation, uniforms and insignia of South African Special Forces from their origins up to the early 90s.Units such as the 44 Parachute Brigade, the Hunter Group and the infamous SWA Police COIN Unit 'Koevoet' are examined in depth.These elite units of the South African Defence Force and the special anti-terrorist units of the South ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • South African Special Forces

    by Robert Pitta, Jeff Fannell ...
    Series Book 47 - Elite
    This book provides a highly detailed account of the history, organisation, uniforms and insignia of South African Special Forces from their origins up to the early 90s.Units such as the 44 Parachute Brigade, the Hunter Group and the infamous SWA Police COIN Unit 'Koevoet' are examined in depth.These elite units of the South African Defence Force and the special anti-terrorist units of the South ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • 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

  • Days of the Generals

    The untold story of South Africa’s apartheid-era military generals

    by Hilton Hamann ...
    What really happened during South Africa’s military involvement in Angola? Did the military leaders always see eye to eye with the politicians – and with each other? Was South Africa responsible for the death of Mozambican President Samora Machel? What was the extent of South Africa’s nuclear programme? How did South Africa’s military machine deal with the end of apartheid? Based on interviews ... Read more

    $9.09 USD

  • Encyclopedia of the World's Special Forces

    Tactics - Strategy - History - Weapons

    by Mike Ryan, Chris Mann, Alexander Stilwell ...
    Since the advent of special forces units in World War II, governments and armies have trained small, elite teams of soldiers to perform operations deemed too risky or demanding for regular troops. Training to enter the special forces is harsh in the extreme, and the few who enter the ranks of the elite can expect a life of intense operational danger. Special forces missions include counter ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At The Front

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

    by Jannie Geldenhuys ...
    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

  • Total Onslaught

    Apartheid’s dirty tricks exposed

    by De Wet Potgieter ...
    For much of its time in power, the National Party government was shored up by the direct involvement of its security forces. Ordinary citizens had no idea that their taxes were being used to fund unorthodox and even illegal operations, ranging from international propaganda campaigns to local death squads. From the dreaded Security Branch, the sinister Civil Cooperation Bureau, the aptly named BOSS ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Battle for Cassinga

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

    by Mike McWilliams ...
    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

  • 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

  • From SAS to Blood Diamond Wars

    by Fred Marafono, Hamish Ross ...
    Even by SAS standards this is the story of an outstanding warrior.On the point of being demobbed from the SAS, Fred Marafono was recruited by David Stirling for his private security company. After Stirling's death, Fred found himself in the midst of Sierra Leone's Blood Diamond wars, and formed an unbreakable bonding with the country's champion of democracy, Chief Hinga Norman, whose leadership ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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