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Table of Contents ABOUT ................................................................................................................................................ 2

CONTACT ............................................................................................................................................ 3

New title: SAS on Operations with C Squadron ............................................................................. 4

New title: Move the Border ........................................................................................................... 5

New title: The Last of Africa’s Cold War Conflicts ......................................................................... 6

New title: We Dared to Win ........................................................................................................... 7

Mad Mike Hoare: The Legend ........................................................................................................ 8

Zulu Foxtrot Reloaded .................................................................................................................... 9

Executive Outcomes .................................................................................................................... 10

Vlakplaas…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………11

Bat Out of Hell .............................................................................................................................. 12

The Great Trek Uncut ................................................................................................................... 13

Secret SAS Missions in Africa ....................................................................................................... 14

Platoon 3 ...................................................................................................................................... 15

Anglo-Boer War (South African War) 1899-1902 ........................................................................ 16

SAS Action in Africa ...................................................................................................................... 17

More Bestselling Military Titles ................................................................................................... 18

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SAS on Operations with C Squadron Sub title: Terrorist Pursuit and Rebel attacks in Cold War Africa

Author: Michael Graham

ISBN: 9781526772855

Extent: 108 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 260 x 204 mm

SA Rel date: April 2020

RRP: R295

Published by: Pen & Sword

Description:

This is the third and final ‘stand-alone’ account of C Squadron SAS’s thrilling operations against the relentless spread of communist backed terrorism in East Africa. Drawing on first-hand experiences the author describe operations against communistbacked terrorists in Angola and Mozambique, aiding the Portuguese and Renamo against the MPLA and Frelimo respectively. Back in Southern Rhodesia SAS General Peter Walls, realising the danger that Mugabe and ZANU represented, appealed directly to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This correspondence, published here for the first time, changed nothing and years of corruption and genocide followed. Although C Squadron was disbanded in 1980 many members joined the South African special forces. Operations undertaken included unsuccessful and costly destabilisation attempts against Mugabe and missions into Mozambique including the assassination of Samora Machel. By 1986 deteriorating relationships with the South African authorities resulted in the break-up of the SAS teams who dispersed worldwide. Had Mike Graham not written his three action-packed books, C Squadron SAS’s superb fighting record might never have been revealed. For those who are fascinated by special forces soldiering his accounts are ‘must reads’.

About the Authors:

Mike Graham was born in Burnley, Lancashire but brought up in Rhodesia. He was called

up for National Service in the Rhodesian Army. After being commissioned as an officer he

transferred to the Regular Army and joined the Rhodesian SAS (C Squadron), rising to be

Second-in-Command. His and his fellow officers’ experiences are the subject of this book,

the sequel to Secret SAS Missions in Africa and SAS Action in Africa. He left the Army as

a Major and emigrated to New Zealand in 1990. Married to Sharen, Mike sadly passed

away in 2019.

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Move the Border Sub title: A History of the Greatest Battles of the Angolan Border War 1966-1989

Author: Marius Scheepers

ISBN: 9781928359791

Extent: 432 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 228 x 152 mm

SA Rel date: June 2020

RRP: R395

Published by: 30 Degrees South

Description:

An account which strives to place the war which South Africa fought in Angola in a historically meaningful perspective. Although the conflict initially centered on the opposing agendas of the SADF and People’s Liberation Army of Namibia of SWAPO, it was to escalate and take on an international Cold War character as Angolan, Cuban, and Soviet protagonists appeared on the stage of the unfolding drama. Apart from the political resolution which was subsequently achieved in South Africa, the war represented the last African liberation struggle for independence from colonial rule. The aim of this book is to present a concise history of the Angolan Border War from 1966 to 1989. It supplements previous books which have covered periods of the war by breaking the entire duration of the conflict down into six distinctive phases and meticulously reconstructing twenty specific military operations in Angola which changed the course of the war. The perspective which the strategy affords should enable readers to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the individual phases of the war and the context which they provide for its final outcome. Two highly significant events of the war, the battles of Cuvelai (1983/84) and the battle at Indungo (1987), are subjected to particular scrutiny in the overall narrative. The battle at Indungo has been relatively neglected by writers and historians prior to the publication of this book.

About the Authors:

Marius Scheepers, was born in the small town of Wesselsbron in the Free State Province

of South Africa and completed his schooling at Voortrekkerhoogte, Pretoria. . After his

military service he qualified as an attorney and today runs his own law firm in Pretoria. In

2020 he was awarded a Master’s Degree of Social Science (History) by the University of

Pretoria after he completed a dissertation on the topic: The Battle at Indungo, 31 October

1987: An SADF Military Venture against SWAPO in the Angolan Border War.

He is an accomplished author with already one title to his name on the Angolan Border

War: Striking inside Angola with 32 Battalion, 30 Degrees South Publishers 2012.

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The Last of Africa’s Cold War

Conflicts Sub title: Portuguese Guinea and its Guerilla Insurgency

Author: Al J Venter

ISBN: 9781526772985

Extent: 240 pages

Format: Hardcover

Size: 156 x 234 mm

SA Rel date: July 2020

RRP: R660

Published by: Pen & Sword

Description:

Portugal was the first European country to colonise Africa. It was also the last to leave, almost five centuries later. During the course of what Lisbon called its civilizing mission in Africa the Portuguese weathered numerous insurrections, but none as severe as the guerrilla war first launched in Angola in 1961 and two years later in Portuguese Guinea. While Angola had a solid economic infrastructure, that did not hold for the tiny West African enclave that was to become Guine-Bissau. Both Soviets and Cubans believed that because that tiny colony- roughly the size of Belgium - had no resources and a small population, that Lisbon would soon capitulate. They were wrong, because hostilities lasted more than a decade and the 11-year struggle turned into the most intense of Lisbon's three African colonies. It was a classic African guerrilla campaign that kicked off in January 1963, but nobody noticed because what was taking place in Vietnam grabbed all the headlines. The Soviet-led guerrilla campaign in Portuguese Guinea was to go on and set the scene for the wars that followed in Rhodesia and present-day Namibia.

.About the Authors:

Al J. Venter is a specialist military writer who has had over fifty books published. He

started his career with International Defence Review, covering military developments in

the Middle East and Africa. He has been writing on insurgencies across the globe for half

a century and remains involved with Britain's Jane's Information Group. Late 2019 he

covered the conflict in the Central African Republic, a United Nations "Peacekeeping"

effort for Jane's Defence Weekly. Sadly, he found a country striven with violence.

In his day the author was a stringer for the BBC, NBC News, as well as London's Daily

Express and Sunday Express. One of his most recent major books, Portugal's Guerrilla

Wars in Africa, was nominated for New York's Arthur Goodzeit military history book

award. Venter writes extensively for several Pen & Sword military history series including

Cold War 1945-1991' and A History of Terror’.

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We Dared to Win Sub title: The SAS in Rhodesia

Author: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers

ISBN: 9780639935119

Extent: 195 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 224 x 159 mm

SA Rel date: March 2018

RRP: R275

Published by: Casemate Publishers

Description:

In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists. A quiet, introspective, deep thinker Andre started out as a trooper in the Rhodesian Light Infantry commandos and was hectically engaged in Fire-Force combat operations before leaving for the SAS. Wounded 12 times, his operational record is exceptional even by the high standards that existed at the time and he really emerges as the quintessential SAS officer displaying extraordinary calmness and audacious cunning in the course of a host of extremely dangerous operations. Loved by his men Andre, writes very eruditely about his mental and emotional condition during the war and reflects very candidly on what he learned and how war has shaped his life since. Offered a commission in the British SAS after the conflict he decided to stop soldiering and entered a seminary whereupon he became a minister. In addition to Andre's personal story the book also reveals more about the other men who were distinguished operators in other celebrated SAS operations. This is the story of soldiers, the hardships, the battles they fought and the challenges they faced.

About the Authors:

Hannes Wessels was born in Southern Rhodesia, but grew up in Umtali on the Mozambican border. He is part-owner of a lodge on the Zambezi and is keenly interested in all matters relating to African wildlife and conservation. He is the author of the highly-praised 'A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia' (Casemate 2015). After a childhood on a farm in the Rhodesian bush, Andre Scheepers joined the Rhodesian Light Infantry commandos in followed by the SAS in 1974. In the thick of the action during the Rhodesian Bush War he was wounded on 12 occasions. Turning down an opportunity to go into the British SAS, he elected instead to join a seminary and later became a priest. A true leader, beloved by his men, his calmness in extreme danger coupled with his ability to think his way out of tight corners made him the quintessential SAS officer

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Mad Mike Hoare: The Legend Sub title: A Biography

Author: Chris Hoare

ISBN: 9780620798617

Extent: 320 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 230 x 152 mm

SA Rel date: August 2018

RRP: R395

Published by: Partners in Publishing

Description:

In 1964/1965, Colonel Mike Hoare led 300 ‘Wild Geese’ across the Congo to crush a communist rebellion, rescue 2000 nuns and priests from barbarity, beat Che Guevara … and become a legend. Of Irish blood, Mike was schooled in England and, during World War 2, was the ‘best bloody soldier in the British Army’. He demobbed as major, qualified in London as a chartered accountant and emigrated to South Africa. Going rogue, he started living dangerously to get more out of life, including trans-Africa motorbike trips, bluewater sailing, exploring remote areas, and leading safaris in the Kalahari Desert. Here Mike got to know the CIA agent who was to change his life … and Nelson Mandela’s. Later Mike was technical advisor to the film The Wild Geese, which starred Richard Burton playing the Mike Hoare character. In 1981 Mike led 50 ‘Frothblowers’ in a bid to depose the socialist government of the Seychelles. Things went wrong and soon Mike was to spend three years in jail for hijacking a Boeing 707. Here for the first time, in this story behind the story, Chris Hoare separates the man from the myth in a way only a son can, and concludes his ‘mad dad’ was an officer and a gentleman with a bit of pirate thrown in.

About the Authors:

Chris Hoare is the eldest son of ‘Mad Mike’. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Natal in South Africa, and has spent most of his working life in journalism of different kinds. With unique access to Mike and his story, it took Chris about 12 years, working between times, to research and write this authoritative biography.

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Zulu Foxtrot Reloaded Sub title: More Life and Death with Koevoet

Author: Arn Durand

ISBN: 9780620797559

Extent: 289 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 230 x 150 mm

SA Rel date: August 2018

RRP: R320

Published by: JIM Publishers

Description:

The third explosive account written in the same novelistic style as Zulu Zulu Golf and Zulu Zulu Foxtrot. More experiences with the deadly counter insurgency unit Koevoet during the Angolan Border War.

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 life and mindset between surviving the murder and mayhem as well as family life.

Told just how it was experienced without pulling any stops.

About the Authors:

Arn Durand was born in Chloorkop near Kempton Park in 1961 and grew up in Durban. In

1981 he became the 35th white member of the notorious Special Ops K (‘Koevoet’) at

Oshakati in northern Namibia. During the six years that he served he engaged in 127

contacts with the enemy, SWAPO. He was ambushed many times and survived anti-tank

landmine explosions. Today he doesn’t do much. Zulu Foxtrot Reloaded is his third book.

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Executive Outcomes Sub title: Against all Odds

Author: Eeben Barlow

ISBN: 9781928359050

Extent: 770 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 234 x 153 mm

SA Rel date: May 2018

RRP: R595

Published by: 30 Degrees South

Description:

Executive Outcomes was already well known to several governments and private corporations before it exploded into controversy in 1993 after entering into a contract with Angola's FAA to train a brigade-level force to decisively end their decades-old conflict with UNITA. It was also well known to those involved in fermenting conflicts in order to topple African governments with a view to controlling resources for personal gain. The role Executive Outcomes played in bringing an end to the conflicts in Angola and Sierra Leone threatened numerous duplicitous foreign entities. To protect their economic and other interests, a media frenzy was generated to discredit the company, and false media and intelligence reporting became the norm upon which Executive Outcomes was judged. Despite attempts to bribe the company's founder and massive pressure from several international governments-including the South African government-Executive Outcomes continued to provide assistance and support to African and other governments under siege. In honoring its contracts, several of its employees made the ultimate sacrifice. Executive Outcomes is still regarded as the gold standard by which similar companies are judged, and it is the only private military company that never failed in a contract or abandoned a client government. During the years that it was active, the men of Executive Outcomes saved many thousands of lives. In this revised edition, the author presents a no-holds-barred account of the company's activities and the numerous threats it had to deal with, including attempts to assassinate its founder and chairman.

About the Authors:

Eeben Barlow served as a commandant (lieutenant colonel) in several conventional,

unconventional, and covert South African Defence Force units. Commissioned in the SADF's

Corps of Engineers, he served as the sapper officer in several infantry battalions, and as

second in command of 32 Battalion's Reconnaissance Wing. Following that deployment, he

served as an agent handler for Military Intelligence and thereafter as a covert operative in the

SA Special Forces' shadowy Civil Cooperation Bureau. When he became `politically

expendable' he founded Executive Outcomes, and was initially contracted to train SADF

Special Forces operators in covert operations. As the founder and chairman of Executive

Outcomes, he oversaw the initial defeat of UNITA in Angola, the destruction of the RUF in

Sierra Leone, and the rescue of western hostages in Indonesia. He is currently the chairman

of STTEP International Ltd, a company that actively supports governments in Africa.

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Vlakplaas

Sub title: Apartheid Deaath Squads 1979-1994

Author: Robin Binckes

ISBN: 9781526729217

Extent: 128 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 234 x 156 mm

SA Rel date: September 2018

RRP: R360

Published by: Pen & Sword

Description:

Faced with the 'total onslaught' by its enemies, in 1979, Apartheid South Africa established Vlakplaas-lit. 'shallow farm', a 100-hectare farm nestling in the hills outside Pretoria on the Hennops River-as a secret operation under the arm of C1, a counter-terrorism division of the South African Police headed by Brigadier Schoon. The first phase of Vlakplaas operations, up until 1989, was aimed at fighting the enemy: the armed wings of the liberation movements, the African National Congress's Umkhonto we Sizwe (or 'MK'), the Pan Africanist Congress's Azanian People's Liberation Army (or APLA) and the South African Communist Party. The second phase was 'fighting organized crime' in which Vlakplaas itself seamlessly adopted the mantle of organized crime in the notorious downtown area of Johannesburg's Hillbrow. The final phase, the most destructive, was as the murky 'Third Force' that destabilized the country in an orgy of violence in the run-up to its first democratic elections, in 1994. Operating within South Africa as well as beyond the country's borders, it will never been known how many victims can be attributed to the Vlakplaas agenda-with much of the execution taking place on the farm itself-but a conservative figure of 1,000 murders and assassinations has been mooted.

About the Authors:

Robin Binckes was born in 1941 in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Educated at Umtata

in the Transkei, he enjoyed a business career that spanned Public Relations, sports

promotion, travel and tourism and food retailing. He has written several historical books

on South Africa, including the bestselling The Great Trek-Escape from British Rule: The

Boer Exodus from the Cape Colony, 1836. He has recently started writing for several Pen

& Sword military history series including 'Death Squads' (on massacres and genocides)

and 'Architects of Terror'. Inspired by the late David Rattray, he currently works in

Johannesburg as a tour guide with his own company, Spear of the Nation, specializing in

oratory story-telling.

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Bat Out of Hell Sub title: A South African paratrooper in America

Author: Granger Korff

ISBN: 9781928359111

Extent: 376 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 228 x 152 mm

SA Rel date: June 2019

RRP: R355

Published by: 30 Degrees South

Description:

The aftermath… After the dust had settled, the smell of gunpowder had dispersed, the crashing sound of mortars and RPG7s had faded away … what ghosts returned with young South African soldiers of the border war generation who fought at the tip of the spear against the communist threat on South Africa’s border? Young ‘parabats’, manufactured by the formidable factory of 1 Parachute Battalion, had been rushed to the forefront of the action in the Border War. Now in the same civilian clothes they had worn before, many returning troops found they were not the same young men as before. For many South African troepies from different military units and phases of the bush war, the dust and the smoke took years to settle; parts of their souls were forever connected to, and travelled back, to a time when birds erupted from trees in a smoke filled battle zone, like bats out of hell … to the smell of the ambush, the head count after the contact, visions of the conventional battle fields of Angola, chasing hot spoor trails in Namibia. Forever standing guard over lost comrades, and even dead enemies. This is the aftermath, the beginning of a long personal battle … but now there is no help from a platoon buddy or a watchful platoon sergeant. In this new battle, on this new journey, you walk alone.

About the Authors:

Granger Korff was born on the East Rand near Johannesburg to a realtor father and

budding-actress mother. He grew up in the mining town of Benoni, a quiet child initially,

before ‘enjoying’ a colourful school career as a musician and quick fisted rebel, attending

a string of different schools for a string of different reasons. He graduated in 1979—alone

from the public library. In 1985, plagued by his demons from the bush war, he travelled to

the USA on a four-month boxing/vacation walkabout where he haunted the mean streets

of Los Angeles, scrapping and boxing to survive. Ike Turner and Mickey Rourke were his

drinking buddies and he almost became Jake LaMotta’s (‘The Raging Bull’) son-in-law.

Twenty-four years later, Granger still lives in LA, where he runs a small plumbing

business.

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The Great Trek Uncut Sub title: Escape from British Rule: The Boer Exodus from the cape colony, 1836

Author: Robin Binckes

ISBN: 9781920143688

Extent: 584 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 234 x 156 mm

SA Rel date: April 2012

RRP: R320

Published by: 30 Degrees South

Description:

In the early planning stages of Freedom Park Robin Binckes participated as a member of the history sub-committee. The amount of debate and argument, much of it heated, astounded him. Practically every event discussed was interpreted from diametrically differing viewpoints. One of the most controversial topics was the Great Trek, the 1836 Boer exodus from the Cape Colony. Traditionally writers on the subject have covered the event from a perspective not only of ‘white history’ but predominantly of ‘Afrikaner history’. It has always been seen as ‘an Afrikaner event’. It was anything but. As the Great Trek and the events leading up to it involved every section of the population—Zulu, Sotho, Ndebele, Xhosa, Khoisan, Khoikhoi, Coloured, British, English-speaking South African and Boer—it is time to portray the trek in that light, in the context of an unbiased, modern South Africa.

About the Authors:

Robin Binckes was born in East Griqualand, South Africa in April 1941. After matriculating

in Umtata, Transkei, he did his national service at the South African Navy Gymnasium,

Saldanha Bay. In 1970 he opened his own PR company to promote major sporting events

ranging from international cricket to Formula One Grand Prix during the period of sports

isolation. In 1990 he started The Gansbaai Fishing Company and spent ten years in the

food industry. During the violence that swept South Africa in 1993 he volunteered as a

peace monitor in the townships. Sparked by the passion of the late historical orator David

Rattray, he qualified in 2002 as a historical tour guide, conducting tours in the

Johannesburg–Pretoria region through his company ‘Spear of the Nation’. His first book,

Canvas under the Sky, a best-selling novel on the Great Trek, was published in 2011 and

continues to fuel lively debate.

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Secret SAS Missions in Africa Sub title: C Squadron’s Counter-Terrorist Operations 1968-1980

Author: Michael Graham

ISBN: 9781526748447

Extent: 208 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 234 x 156 mm

SA Rel date: June 2018

RRP: R245

Published by: Pen & Sword

Description:

This fascinating book is the first to cover the little known C Squadron of the Special Air Service. Operating in East Africa, the Squadron was involved in almost continuous counter communist terrorist operations over the period 1968 to 1980. In the unstable final stages of British colonial and white rule, the Squadron was never short of action. African nationalist movements, backed by Russia’s and China’s direct and indirect support posed a constant and deadly threat to the existing regimes. Small highly trained detachments of the SAS with highly developed bush warfare skills proved devastatingly effective and achieved results out of all proportion to their size. Often their enemies believed that they were facing rival factions and turned on each other. The inevitable involvement of African wildlife adds an extra dimension of excitement. Written by a seasoned former senior member of C Squadron, Secret SAS Missions in Africa paints a graphic and thrilling account of their covert operations and the colourful characters that undertook them.

About the Authors:

Mike Graham was born in Burnley, Lancashire but brought up in Rhodesia. He was called

up for National Service in the Rhodesian Army. After being commissioned as an officer he

transferred to the Regular Army and joined the Rhodesian SAS (C Squadron), rising to be

Second-in-Command.

His and his fellow officers’ experiences are the subject of this book. He left the Army as a

Major and emigrated to New Zealand in 1980. He is married to Sharen.

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Platoon 3 Sub title: A Mechanised Ratel soldiers story

Author: Tim Ramsden

ISBN: 9781928359098

Extent: 400 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 234 x 153 mm

SA Rel date: November 2017

RRP: R325

Published by: 30 Degrees South

Description:

“This is a story common to tens of thousands; called up, broken down, trained and thrust into action.”

In 1984, as an eighteen-year-old school leaver, the author was conscripted into a chaotic world of strict order, intense discipline and subtle brain washing, moulding him into a proud well trained 1SAI Ratel soldier. On the SWA/Namibian/Angolan border patrolling through the bush under heavy rainfall and extreme heat, the platoon formed unbreakable bonds of camaraderie. The sheer fear of lying in nightly ambush positions and burying massacred dead in Angola, added to the insanities of the border war. While stemming the flow of refugees from war torn Mozambique, three soldiers from Platoon 3 were captured and held as POW’s in Maputo in the notorious former Portuguese prison, Machava. Called up as a Citizen Force mechanised soldier in 1988, the author along with some of Platoon 3 joined an armoured battle group hurriedly formed to repel two Cuban armoured brigades threatening to invade SWA/Namibia east of Ruacana.

About the Authors:

Tim Ramsden was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1965 and was educated at

Treverton College, a boarding school in Mooi River, Natal before doing his mandatory

term of two years National Service. He worked as a manager in retail before embarking

on a five-year backpacking adventure through thirty-five countries. He now lives in

Newmarket, Canada and continues to work in retail as a manager. He still holds a keen

interest for travel, adventure and the magic of Africa, hoping one day that the love and

passion for the land of his birth will rub off on to his son.

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Anglo-Boer War (South African War)

1899-1902 Sub title: A Historical Guide to Memorials and Sites in South Africa

Author: Jackie Grobler

ISBN: 9781928211297

Extent: 400 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 234 x 153 mm

SA Rel date: November 2017

RRP: R455

Published by: 30 Degrees South

Description:

This is a study of commemorative sites with a difference. The text guides the reader in two ways simultaneously. In the first place it provides information on the vast number (more than 1,200) and wide range of Anglo-Boer War places of remembrance in South Africa. These include monuments, memorials such as plaques and tablets, historical sites such as battlefields and concentration camp locations, buildings that have a specific connection with the war, statues, busts and bas-relief sculptures, historical paintings, museum collections and, of course, since it has to do with a war, cemeteries and graves. Secondly, the book places all the sites that are included in their historical context. To simply indicate the approximate location of a war site, without providing a proper indication on how the site fits into the broad history of the event that it commemorated, is not adequate. For that reason the places of remembrance are introduced to the reader against the background of the history which they mirror. This means in effect that the reader acquires, together with information on the places of remembrance, a concise history of the war as a whole. As a result the book will not only be useful to readers who travel to the sites, but also to virtual tourists.

About the Authors:

Jackie Grobler is a senior lecturer in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies,

University of Pretoria. He holds a D.Phil degree in History. He has written twelve books on

historical topics ranging from resistance politics in South Africa to socio-economic and

military history. His best-known publication is The War Reporter: The Anglo-Boer War

through the eyes of the burghers (2004), which has been reprinted nine times. In addition

he has co-authored or contributed chapters to a further seven books and has written

numerous articles on historical topics which have been published in either academic

journals or in newspapers and magazines.

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SAS Action in Africa Sub title: Terrorists, Poachers and Civil War C Squadron Operations: 1968–1980

Author: Michael Graham

ISBN: 9781526762283

Extent: 208 pages

Format: Paperback

Size: 234 x 156 mm

SA Rel date: May 2020

RRP: R295

Published by: Pen & Sword

Description:

This gripping action-packed book is the eagerly awaited sequel to the best-selling Secret SAS Missions in Africa. C Squadron SAS, comprising dedicated battle-hardened veterans, operated against ruthless terrorist groups, trained and equipped by the Chinese and Russians between 1968 and 1980. The Author, who rose to be the Squadron Second-in-Command, is superbly qualified to tell the inside story of their daring and deadly operations undertaken regardless of international borders in former Southern Rhodesia, Zambia, Angola and Mozambique. These include actively supporting Renamo, who were bitterly opposed to the Marxist/Leninist Frelimo regime in Mozambique. Operation DINGO, the Squadron’s largest mission, destroyed a large ZANU training base and almost tipped the balance of power against Mugabe. We learn the story behind the shooting down of two civilian aircraft in what is now Zimbabwe and the special force follow-up to exact revenge. Also described are anti-poaching operations against break-away groups intent on trading ivory and rhino horns. With its fast pace, colourful characters and behind-the-lines operations, SAS Action in Africa is a superb and thrilling read.

About the Authors:

Mike Graham was born in Burnley, Lancashire but brought up in Rhodesia. He was called

up for National Service in the Rhodesian Army. After being commissioned as an officer he

transferred to the Regular Army and joined the Rhodesian SAS (C Squadron), rising to be

Second-in-Command.

His and his fellow officers’ experiences are the subject of this book, the sequel to Secret

SAS Missions in Africa. He left the Army as a Major and emigrated to New Zealand in

1990. He is married to Sharon.

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6. Title: Composite Warfare

Sub Title: The conduct of successful ground force operations in south africa Author: Eeben Barlow

ISBN: 9781928211761 SA Rel date: September 2016 RRP: R350 Published by: 30 Degrees South

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7. Title: Koevoet! Sub Title: Experiencing South Africa’s Deadly Bush War Author: Jim Hooper

ISBN: 9780957058705 SA Rel date: March 2019 RRP: R395 Published by: Helion & Company

8. Title: Chopper Down

Sub Title: A Mercenery Pilot in Africa Author: Carl Alberts

ISBN: 9781928211785 SA Rel date: July 2016 RRP: R295 Published by: 30 Degrees South

9. Title: Die Groot Trek

Sub Title: Verlos van die Britse Heerskappy: Exodus van die Boere uit die Kaapkolonie, 1836 Author: Robin Binckes

ISBN: 9781928211273 SA Rel date: November 2014 RRP: R350 Published by: 30 Degrees South

10. Title: Total Onslaught Sub Title: War and Revolution in Southern Africa since 1945 Author: Paul Moorcraft

ISBN: 9781526704887 SA Rel date: October 2018 RRP: R475 Published by: Pen & Sword