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Ratels Aan Die Lomba - Die Storie Van Charlie-eskadron (Afrikaans, Paperback): Leopold Scholtz Ratels Aan Die Lomba - Die Storie Van Charlie-eskadron (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Leopold Scholtz 4
R295 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R31 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Op 3 Oktober 1987 het Charlie-eskadron – die ystervuis van 61 Gemeganiseerde Bataljongroep – die kritieke geveg tussen die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag en die Angolese magte op die Lombarivier in die suide van Angola gelei. Dié boek plaas die leser in die midde van die jong dienspligtiges wat na die Grensoorlog weggevoer is om hierdie geveg te gaan voer.

Langs die Lomba het hulle te staan gekom teen ’n Angolese mag met ’n getalsoorwig en beter wapentuig. Boonop was die terrein so dig bebos dat hul sig en beweging aansienlik ingeperk is. Die SAW se taktiese doktrine het duidelik gestel dat tenks teen tenks aangewend moes word. Tog moes die dienspligtiges die Angolese tenks aanvat in pantservoertuie met minder kragtige kanonne en dun pantser wat nie veel meer as gewone geweervuur kon afweer nie. Steeds is 47 Brigade van die Angolese magte amper uitgewis tydens die geveg aan die Lomba.

Scholtz se beskrywing van hierdie David-teen-Goliath-geveg neem die leser na die hart van die aksie. Danksy onderhoude met veterane en dagboekinskrywings dra hierdie eerlike, intense hervertelling die volle drama van die geveg oor. Dit is ook ’n diep menslike verhaal oor hoe individue reageer in die aangesig van die dood en hoe die oorlog hulle nooit uit sy kloue gelaat het nie, selfs nadat hulle teruggekeer het.

Cuito Cuanavale - 12 Months Of War That Transformed A Continent (Paperback): Fred Bridgland Cuito Cuanavale - 12 Months Of War That Transformed A Continent (Paperback)
Fred Bridgland 4
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

It is September 1987. The Angolan Army – with the support of Cuban troops and Soviet advisors – has built up a massive force on the Lomba River near Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola. Their goal? To capture Jamba, the headquarters of the rebel group Unita, supported by the South African Defence Force (SADF) in the so-called Border War.

In the battles that followed, and shortly thereafter centred around the small town of Cuito Cuanavale, 3 000 SADF soldiers and 8 000 Unita fighters were up against a much bigger Angolan and Cuban force of over 50 000 men.

Thousands of soldiers died in the vicious fighting that is described in vivid detail in this book. Bridgland pieced together this account through scores of interviews with SADF men who were on the front line. This dramatic retelling takes the reader to the heart of the action.

The SADF And Cuito Cuanavale - A Tactical And Strategic Analysis (Paperback): Leopold Scholtz The SADF And Cuito Cuanavale - A Tactical And Strategic Analysis (Paperback)
Leopold Scholtz 4
R295 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R31 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In 1987–1988 the dusty Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale was the backdrop for the final battles of the Border War. Ever since the war ended, the fighting around Cuito has been the subject of a fierce public debate over who actually won the war.

While the leadership of the former South African Defence Force (SADF) claims it was never defeated, the supporters of the Angolan MPLA government, Cuba and SWAPO insist that the SADF was vanquished on the battlefield. They contend that the SADF wanted to overrun Cuito Cuanavale and use it as a springboard for an advance on Luanda.

But was Cuito Cuanavale ever really an objective of the SADF? Leopold Scholtz tackles this question by examining recently declassified documents in the SANDF archives, exploring the strategic and tactical decisions that shaped the six main battles, from the SADF’s stunning tactical success on the Lomba River to the grinding struggle for the Tumpo Triangle.

His incisive analysis untangles what happens when war, politics and propaganda become entwined.

Die Brug - Na Die Hel En Terug In Angola (Afrikaans, Paperback): Deon Lamprecht Die Brug - Na Die Hel En Terug In Angola (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Deon Lamprecht
R280 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R30 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In vergeelde foto’s van drie dekades gelede staan oopgesigseuns vol bravade voor Ratel-gevegsvoertuie. Hierdie dienspligtiges van 61 Gemeganiseerde Bataljongroep staan aan die begin van hul reis diep in Angola in om vir volk en vaderland te gaan veg.

In ’n bloedige geveg op Valentynsdag 1988 en in die doodsakker by Tumpo sou hul jeugdige onskuld egter sneuwel. In die hitte van die gevegte kom die besef: Nou gaan dit nie oor ideologie nie, maar om oorlewing.

Ná die oorlog gaan die lewe voort, maar die vrae en geestelike letsels wyk nie. In 2018 keer ’n groep van dié ouddienspligtiges terug na Cuito Cuanavale op soek na afsluiting - en om die wrak te vind van die Ratel waarin ’n makker op die laaste dag van die oorlog gesterf het.

Die Brug vertel van hul reis van jong man na veteraan en gee ook ’n stem aan die vroue in hul lewe. Dit is ’n verhaal van ontnugtering, maar ook van trotse kameraderie en genesing.

Bush Brothers - Life And Death Across The Border (Paperback): Steve De Witt Bush Brothers - Life And Death Across The Border (Paperback)
Steve De Witt
R340 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Bush Brothers is not about special forces or heroic, secret missions. Instead, it is an intimate look at the daily life of ordinary soldiers – and the unbreakable bonds they formed under fire.

This is the story of thousands of infantry men who were deployed in the SADF, on or across the Border.

Colourful characters and wild partying are interspersed with the life-and-death choices troops were forced to make as they sacrificed life and limb, not so much for their country, but for each other.

Belonging To 2 Troop - A memoir of the Falkands War 1982 (Hardcover): Robbie Burns Belonging To 2 Troop - A memoir of the Falkands War 1982 (Hardcover)
Robbie Burns
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This authentic account is a tribute to the courage and resolve with which soldiers and their loved ones confront uncertainty, fear, hardship and the loss of their comrades. Subjected to continual changes of affiliation as the Falklands campaign unfolds, 2 Troop has to create its own identity and sense of belonging drawing on its professional belief, strength of leadership, and intrinsic camaraderie. This is the story of how they did it, and the contribution they made, in one of the toughest campaigns since World War 2. A 'must read' for aspiring junior commanders and students of the realities of war. -- General Sir Peter Wall GCB, CBE, DL, FREng

Belonging To 2 Troop - A memoir of the Falkands War 1982 (Paperback): Robbie Burns Belonging To 2 Troop - A memoir of the Falkands War 1982 (Paperback)
Robbie Burns
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This authentic account is a tribute to the courage and resolve with which soldiers and their loved ones confront uncertainty, fear, hardship and the loss of their comrades. Subjected to continual changes of affiliation as the Falklands campaign unfolds, 2 Troop has to create its own identity and sense of belonging drawing on its professional belief, strength of leadership, and intrinsic camaraderie. This is the story of how they did it, and the contribution they made, in one of the toughest campaigns since World War 2. A 'must read' for aspiring junior commanders and students of the realities of war. -- General Sir Peter Wall GCB, CBE, DL, FREng

The Remount Service in the United Kingdom in War-Time (Paperback): War Office The Remount Service in the United Kingdom in War-Time (Paperback)
War Office
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Detail of the Sets of Harness Required for the Various Natures of Service Pattern Vehicles (Paperback): War Office Detail of the Sets of Harness Required for the Various Natures of Service Pattern Vehicles (Paperback)
War Office
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Notes on Horse Management in the Field (1919) (Paperback): War Office Notes on Horse Management in the Field (1919) (Paperback)
War Office
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Remount Manual (War) (Paperback): War Office Remount Manual (War) (Paperback)
War Office
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Remount Regulations (Paperback): War Office Remount Regulations (Paperback)
War Office
R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Notes on Horse Management, Part 1 - Notes on Horse Management in the Field (Paperback): War Office Notes on Horse Management, Part 1 - Notes on Horse Management in the Field (Paperback)
War Office
R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Impressment of Horses and Horse-Drawn Vehicles in Time of National Emergency - An Explanation of the System Adopted and the... The Impressment of Horses and Horse-Drawn Vehicles in Time of National Emergency - An Explanation of the System Adopted and the Law and Procedure in Regard Thereto (Paperback)
War Office
R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Veterinary Manual (War) 1915 (Paperback): War Office Veterinary Manual (War) 1915 (Paperback)
War Office
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
San Fairy Ann? - Motorcycles and British Victory 1914-1918 (Paperback): Michael Carragher San Fairy Ann? - Motorcycles and British Victory 1914-1918 (Paperback)
Michael Carragher
R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work explores the value of the motorcycle to communications, and how the despatch rider helped prevent German victory.

Invading Hitler's Third Reich (Paperback): Patrick Delaforce Invading Hitler's Third Reich (Paperback)
Patrick Delaforce
R592 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army (BLA), who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the 'end-game' of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and conquer Hitler's Third Reich and liberate 20 million enslaved nationals from Holland, Denmark and Norway; to free multitudes of displaced persons (DPs) or slaves; and inter alia to free the survivors of twenty concentration camps and many Allied POW camps. The Allied Military Government (AMG) brought law and order to 23 million German nationals in the allocated British zone of occupation (BAOR) and appropriate retribution too. A thrilling race with Stalin's Red Army ensued to reach the Baltic. A matter of a few hours and Denmark and Norway would have been swept into the evil Soviet empire. The author fought vigorously as a junior RHA officer in the five great river battles - Rhine, Dortmund-Ems, Weser, Aller and the Elbe. Soon after VE Day he was the junior officer in War Crimes Tribunals in Hamburg and Oldenburg and witnessed Mr Alfred Pierrepoint administering the hanging of prison camp guards.

A Man Alone - Biography of Robert T. Robinson, a Soldier of the 14th 'Forgotten' Army in India and Burma During World... A Man Alone - Biography of Robert T. Robinson, a Soldier of the 14th 'Forgotten' Army in India and Burma During World War Two (Paperback)
Peter Court
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Armoured Farmer - A Tankie's Tales (Paperback): Malcolm Cleverley Armoured Farmer - A Tankie's Tales (Paperback)
Malcolm Cleverley
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
From Boy Soldier to Major - British Army 1931-72 (Hardcover): Major Frederick Lloyd Price Mbe From Boy Soldier to Major - British Army 1931-72 (Hardcover)
Major Frederick Lloyd Price Mbe
R1,061 Discovery Miles 10 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A personal account of a career soldier, his early life in the 1920's in a rural working-class family, orphaned at 13 years of age and enlistment into boy-service of the British Army one year later. Sent to India at 15 years of age, narrating an insight into military life in Pre-Independence India. An individual perception of the military pre-war years in India and Burma and his experiences during the war with the great retreat from Burma by a fragmented battalion. Post war military life and steady progression in rank and responsibility through to his retirement at 55 years in 1972. He passed away at 99 years and was buried in Stillingfleet, the Yorkshire village where he was born.

A Young Man on the Front Line - Lessons of War (Hardcover): Elaine I Makas A Young Man on the Front Line - Lessons of War (Hardcover)
Elaine I Makas; Edited by Elizabeth Ann Atkins
R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? - A powerful true story of love and survival (Paperback): Horace Greasley Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? - A powerful true story of love and survival (Paperback)
Horace Greasley 1
R279 R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Save R141 (51%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Horace 'Jim' Greasley was twenty years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters and the British government began to prepare for the inevitable war. After seven weeks training with the 2nd/5th Battalion Leicester, he found himself facing the might of the German army in a muddy field south of Cherbourg, in Northern France, with just thirty rounds of ammunition in his weapon pouch. Horace's war didn't last long. He was taken prisoner on 25th May 1940 and forced to endure a ten week march across France and Belgium en-route to Holland.

Horace survived...barely...food was scarce; he took nourishment from dandelion leaves, small insects and occasionally a secret food package from a sympathetic villager, and drank rain water from ditches. Many of his fellow comrades were not so fortunate. Falling by the side of the road through sheer exhaustion and malnourishment meant a bullet through the back of the head and the corpse left to rot. After a three day train journey without food and water, Horace found himself incarcerated in a prison camp in Poland. It was there he embarked on an incredible love affair with a German girl interpreting for his captors.

He experienced the sweet taste of freedom each time he escaped to see her, yet incredibly he made his way back into the camp each time, sometimes two, three times every week. Horace broke out of the camp then crept back in again under the cover of darkness after his natural urges were fulfilled. He brought food back to his fellow prisoners to supplement their meagre rations. He broke out of the camp over two hundred times and towards the end of the war even managed to bring radio parts back in. The BBC news would be delivered daily to over 3,000 prisoners. This is an incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance of the German nation.

Waging Insurgent Warfare - Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State (Hardcover): Seth G Jones Waging Insurgent Warfare - Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State (Hardcover)
Seth G Jones
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the end of World War II, there have been 181 insurgencies around the world. Today, there are over three dozen violent insurgencies, including in such high-profile countries as Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. These insurgencies have been led by a range of groups, from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to the Taliban in Afghanistan. In fact, most warfare today occurs in the form of insurgencies. If we are to understand modern warfare, we need to understand insurgencies. While numerous books have been written on the subject of insurgencies, there is no book that brings together all of what we know into one accessible volume that policymakers can understand and use. Waging Insurgent Warfare is that book. Seth G. Jones, who has been deeply involved in the Afghanistan war over the last decade, aims to help policymakers, scholars, and general readers better understand how groups start, wage, and end insurgencies. He weaves together examples from today and from recent history into an analytic synthesis that focuses on several sets of questions. First, what factors contribute to the rise of an insurgency? Second, what are the key components involved in conducting an insurgency? As he explains, insurgent groups need to decide on a strategy, employ a range of tactics, select an organizational structure, secure outside aid from state and non-state actors, and conduct information campaigns. They then have to routinely re-assess these decisions over the course of an insurgency. Third, what factors contribute to the end of insurgencies? Finally, what do the answers to these questions mean for the conduct of counterinsurgency warfare? Waging Insurgent Warfare is not only a practical handbook for understanding insurgent warfare, but it also has implications for waging counterinsurgent warfare. Highly readable, empirically sophisticated, and historically informed, Waging Insurgent Warfare will become a standard work on the topic.

The AIF in Battle - How the Australian Imperial Force Fought, 1914-1918 (Paperback): Edited by Jean Bou The AIF in Battle - How the Australian Imperial Force Fought, 1914-1918 (Paperback)
Edited by Jean Bou
R1,312 Discovery Miles 13 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By the end of the First World War the combat formations of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in both France and the Middle East were considered among the British Empire's most effective troops. While sometimes a source of pride and not a little boasting, how the force came to be so was not due to any inherent national prowess or trait. Instead it was the culmination of years of training, organisational change, battlefield experimentation and hard-won experience-a process that included not just the Australians, but the wider British imperial armies as well. This book brings together some of Australia's foremost military historians to outline how the military neophytes that left Australia's shores in 1914 became the battle winning troops of 1918. It will trace the evolution of several of the key arms of the AIF, including the infantry, the light horse, the artillery, and the flying corps, and also consider how the various arms worked together alongside other troops of the British Empire to achieve a remarkably high level of battlefield effectiveness.

Million-Dollar Barrage - American Field Artillery in the Great War (Hardcover): Justin G. Prince Million-Dollar Barrage - American Field Artillery in the Great War (Hardcover)
Justin G. Prince
R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At the beginning of the twentieth century, field artillery was a small, separate, unsupported branch of the U.S. Army. By the end of World War I, it had become the 'King of Battle,' a critical component of American military might. Million-Dollar Barrage tracks this transformation. Offering a detailed account of how American artillery crews trained, changed, adapted, and fought between 1907 and 1923, Justin G. Prince tells the story of the development of modern American field artillery - a tale stretching from the period when field artillery became an independent organization to when it became an equal branch of the U.S. Army. The field artillery entered the Great War as a relatively new branch. It separated from the Coast Artillery in 1907 and established a dedicated training school, the School of Fire at Fort Sill, in 1911. Prince describes the challenges this presented as issues of doctrine, technology, weapons development, and combat training intersected with the problems of a peacetime army with no good industrial base. His account, which draws on a wealth of sources, ranges from debates about U.S. artillery practices relative to those of Europe, to discussions of the training, equipping, and performance of the field artillery branch during the war. Prince follows the field artillery from its plunge into combat in April 1917 as an unprepared organization to its emergence that November as an effective fighting force, with the Meuse-Argonne Offensive proving the pivotal point in the branch's fortunes. Million-Dollar Barrage provides an unprecedented analysis of the ascendance of field artillery as a key factor in the nation's military dominance.

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