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  HarperCollins Publishers. Hardback. Book Condition: Very good, 2009, 1st edition. 388 pp. Alamein, Iain Gale, The superb novelist of men at war moves into the twentieth century and World War Two, telling the story of the eleven days in the sands of North Africa that would change history forever. There are some battles that change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its allies were in real difficulties: Germany and its Axis partners seemed to be triumphant everywhere - in Europe, in Russia, in the Atlantic and were now poised to take the Suez Canal. It was in North Africa that the stand was made, that the tide of World War Two began to turn. It was a battle of strong characters: the famous battle commander Rommel and the relatively untested new British commander, Montgomery, leading men who fought through an extraordinary eleven day battle, in an unforgiving terrain, amid the swirling sandstorms and the desert winds. Iain Gale, author of the outstanding historical novel Four Days in June on the battle of Waterloo, tells the dramatic story through seven characters, almost all based on real people. Drawn from both sides of the conflict, they include a major from a Scottish brigade, the young lieutenant in the thick of the tank battle, the Australian sergeant with the infantry, the tank commander of the Panzer Division and the charismatic Italian commander of a parachute battalion. Through them and others we see the flow of battle, the strategies, the individual actions and skirmishes, the fear, the determination, the extraordinary courage on both sides.

Buy Alamein: The turning point of World War Two. Blood, guts and glory, a novel of men at war Iain Gale for R85.00

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   TITLE:  THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF ALAMEIN AND THE DESERT WAR  DESCRIPTION:  SOFTCOVER AS  IN PHOTO. 1967 FEEDBACK:   I TYPICALLY WAIT UNTIL ITEM IS RECEIVED BY THE WINNING BIDDER PRIOR TO POSTING FEEDBACK. THIS ALLOWS BOTH PARTIES TIME TO RESOLVE ANY ISSUES THAT MAY ARISE WITH ANY GIVEN TRANSACTION. POSTAGE:   PLEASE REMEMBER TO ADD R52.00 FOR POSTAGE.           

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  THE TIDE TURNED AT ALAMEIN by B L Bernstein Hard cover NO d/wrapper – 222x142 mm – Central News Agency ±1944 1 st Edition 144 pages – no index included – many b/w photos – maps on boards V/Good overall cond. – tightly bound – no tears – spine/corners mildly bumped – owner’s inscription on fep. “Impressions of the Desert War with the South African Division and the Eight Army, June, 1941 – January, 1943.”

Hardcover with d/j. Binding is tight. D/j frayed at top of spine. Price written on front. Published 1944 with 141 pages and  b/w photographs. Name and date written on inside of front board. Read and meet a general loved by his men, Pienaar of Alamein, Second World War. Postage in RSA = R55.00.  

COMPLETE COLLECTION "SOUTH AFRICA AT WAR " SERIES ASHANTI PUBLISHING 12 TITLES IN THE SERIES ALL FIRST EDITION IN MINT CONDITION WITH DUST JACKETS Volume 1 - THE WAR OF A HUNDRED DAYS: Springboks in Somalia & Abyssinia 1940-41 Volume 2 - WARRIORS OF THE SKY: Springbok Air Heroes in Combat Volume 3 - SOUTH AFRICA'S FLYING CHEETAHS IN KOREA Volume 4 - URGENT IMPERIAL SERVICE: South African Forces in German South West Africa 1914-1915 Volume 5 - WAR AT SEA: South African Maritime Operations during World War II Volume 6 - THEY FOUGHT FOR KING AND KAISER - South Africans in German East Africa 1916 Volume 7 - RETREAT TO VICTORY - A Springbok's Diary: Gazala to El Alamein 1942 Volume 8 - WAR IN ITALY - With the South Africans from Taranto to The Alps Volume 9 - CAPTIVES COURAGEOUS - South African Prisoners of War World War II Volume 10 - A COUNTRY AT WAR 1939-1945 - The Mood of the Nation Volume 11 - PYRAMIDS AND POPPIES - The 1st SA Infantry Brigade in Lybia, France & Flanders 1915-1919 Volume 12 - THE UNKNOWN FORCE - Black, Indian & Coloured Soldiers Through Two World Wars. PLEASE NOTE THAT SHIPPING WILL BE QUOTED AT THE TIME OF SALE DUE TO THE WEIGHT. COURIER DELIVERY IS RECOMMENDED.  

PUBLISHED BY ASHANTI, A COLLECTION OF 12 VOLUMES. HARDCOVERS WITH DUST JACKETS, ALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.  300+ PAGES EACH, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH B/W PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS. TRACKED POSTAGE IS R125.00. VOLUME 1:The war of a hundred days by James Ambrose Brown- Springboks in Somaliland & Abyssinia 1940-41 VOLUME 2: Warriors of the sky by Peter Bagshawe- Springbok air heroes in combat. VOLUME 3: South Africa's Flying Cheetahs in Korea by Dermot Moore & Peter Bagshawe. VOLUME 4. Urgent Imperial Service by Gerald L'ange- South African Forces in German South West Africa 1914-1915 VOLUME 5: War at sea by C.J. Harris-South African Maritime Operations during World War II. VOLUME 6: They fought for king and Kaiser by James Ambrose Brown-South Africans in German East Africa 1916 VOLUME 7: Retreat to Victory by James Ambrose Brown-A Springbok'S diary in North Africa: Gazala to El Alamein 1942 VOLUME 8: War in Italy by Jack Kros- With the South Africans from Taranto to the Alps. VOLUME 9: Captives Courageous by Maxwell Leigh- South African Prisoners of War, World War II VOLUME 10: A Country at War 1939-1945 by Jennifer Crwys-Williams- The mood of a Nation. VOLUME 11: Pyramids and Poppies by Peter K.A. Digby- The 1st SA Infantry Brigade in Libya, France and Flanders 1915-1919 VOLUME 12: The Unknown Force by Ian Gleeson - Black, Indian and Coloured Soldiers Through Two World Wars  

    Field-Marshall Viscount Montgomery The Memoirs London 1958, first edition, hard cover, illustrations, 574 pages, front photo page loosening, otherwise   in excellent antiquarian condition    Deutsches Reich Wehrmacht Afrikakorps Nazi Germany World War II Hitler Stalin Churchill Roosevelt Ostfront Dresden atrocities expulsion Luftwaffe Waffen-SS Third Reich Panzertruppe Paratroopers Stormfront Fallschirmjäger Stuka

1982 large hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.  584 pages. Name of previous owner in front. R50 postage in SA.  Inside: Ancient Greeks, Rome, Barbarian, Medieval, Middle Ages, Spain, Turks, Marlborough, Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington, Mongols, Japanese, Chinese, India, 1914, WW2, ethics of war, Iron curtain, nuclear....

1982 large hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.  584 pages. Name of previous owner in front. R55 postage in SA.  Inside: Ancient Greeks, Rome, Barbarian, Medieval, Middle Ages, Spain, Turks, Marlborough, Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington, Mongols, Japanese, Chinese, India, 1914, WW2, ethics of war, Iron curtain, nuclear....

Hardback. Central News Agency. 1943. ISBN:. 144 pp.. Good condition in hardcover, foxing in prelims mainly, unrelated inscr on endpapersThe author has written about his experiences during the desert war with the South African Division of the 8th Army between 1941-3.

As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what U.S.-Soviet diplomats were otherwise spending in diplomacy. The socialist government of Angola and its army, FAPLA, fully stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out a massive resistance group, UNITA, secretly supplied by the U.S, in order to claim full sovereignty over the country. A giant FAPLA offensive so threatened to succeed in overcoming UNITA that apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted the Angolan government to call on their own foreign reinforcementsthe army of Communist Cubas. Thus began the epic battle of Cuito Cuanavale, largely unknown in the U.S., but which raged for three months in the entirely odd match-up of South African Boers vs. Castros armed forces, which for the first time in the Cold War proved what it could achieve. And it turned out the Cubans were very good. The South Africans were no slouches at warfare themselves, but had suffered under a boycott of weapons since 1977. The Cubans and Angolan troops, instead, had the latest Soviet weapons, easily delivered. But UNITA had its secret U.S. supply line and the South Africans knew how to fight, mainly at a disadvantage in air power for lack of spare parts. Meantime the Cubans overcame their logistic difficulties with an impressive airlift of troops over the Atlantic, while the Boers simply needed to drive next door. As a case study of ferocious fighting between East and Westalbeit proxies for the great powers on all sidesthis book unveils a remarkable episode of the end-game of the Cold War largely unknown to the public. The Angolans on both sides suffered heavily, but it was the apartheid South Africans versus Castros armed forces that provides utter fascination in one of historys rare match-ups. Paperback / 232 pages 54 b/w photos Published December 2013  

 Salute The Sappers, South African Forces: World War 2 Volume 8 - Part 2 by Neil Orpen with H.J. Martin. Part 11. The Operations of the South African Engineer Corps in North African and Italian theaters of war from the Battle of El Alamein to the end of World War II, with a briefdescribition of subsequent developments. Cover frayed at edges hard cover in mint condition

Hardcovers with dust jacket in good condition. R100 postage in SA. 1. Urgent Imperial Service - Gerald L'ange: South African Forces in German South West Africa 1914-1915. 2. Retreat to Victory - Brown: A Springbok's Diary in North Africa: Gazala to El Alamein 1942 3. They fought for Kaiser and King - Brown: South Africans in German East Africa 1916 4. The war of a hundred days - Brown: Springboks in Somalia and Abyssinia 1940-41 5. War in Italy - Jack Kros: Wath the South Africans from Taranto to the Alps 6. War at sea - CJ Harris: South African Maritime Operations during WW2 7. South Africa's Flying Cheetahs in Korea - Moor and Bagshawe 8. Pyramids and Poppies - Digby. The 1st SA Infantry Brigade in Libya, France and Flanders 1915-19.  

 This is an ex-lib but book and wrapper remain good but not perfect - Hamish Hamilton, First Edition, 1965. 250pp, - The book was published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the war in North Africa that was to culminate in Montgomery's victory at Alamein.  *N.B.*   If you buy more than one book from me you only pay R 6 postage on each additional book – see what else I have to offer, it might be worth your while.  

World War 2 by Ivor Mantanle - 1989 Edition Foreword by: Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CBE Oberburgermeister Manfred Rommel John S.D. Eisenhower     

  (Johannesburg: Ashanti Publishing, 1991) 1874800243, 1991. 8vo; Very good, as new original pale boards; As new dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xiv + 301, incl. index; profusely illustrated with battle plans and photographs. As new condition. "James Ambrose Brown's journal of the life of a South African infantryman in the British North African 8th Army, almost exactly half a century ago, gives a day-to-day account of the campaign in the Western Desert against the redoubtable Rommel's Afrika Korps.. Brown's hour-to-hour depiction of the great battle [of El Alamein] that at last sent the enemy reeling back across North Africa remains a classic. A leading American journal, The Saturday Evening Post, called it 'The greatest worm's eye view of battle to come out of the war so far'. To bring today's reader into the picture, James Ambrose Brown has provided a preamble that sets out the political and military events which led up to World War II and the two years of lost North African battles that almost gave total victory to Germany and Italy. Splendid maps by Dr Richard Wood vividly illustrate the tactical situations described in the diary; they also fill in the gaps in large-scale operations. Lavish use of photographs taken by official war photographers illustrate the text. Also reproduced are sketches done by official war artists who were there. Retreat to Victory is a moving and timeless record of despair and hope; and the ultimate devastation that is left in the path of war."

1982. Hard covers with dust cover; 507 and 424 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound and neat. The dust covers have some edge wear. Over 1kg.   Part 1: The formations of the South African Engineer Corps and its operations in East Africa and the Middle East to the Battle of Alamein Part 2: The operations of the South African Engineer Corps in the North African and Italian war, from the Battle of El Alamein to the end of World War II, with a brief description of subsequent developments.

Seven Battles That Shaped South Africa; Mills, Greg; Williams, David.   "An excellent guide book about seven decisive battles which shaped South Africa, and the distinctive personalities involved. The authors visited all the sites themselves and the book contains substantial new information, including the Black perspective on the various battles and on the aftermath of Cuito Canavale.Contents include:.Blood River -- 1838 (Dingane; Andries Pretorius).Isandhlwana/Rorke's Drift -- 1879 (Matyana; Chard).Majuba 1881 (Colley; Joubert).Colenso (Black Week) 1899 (Redvers Buller; Louis Botha).Delville Wood 1916.The Western Desert (Sidi Rezegh, Tobruk and El Alamein) 1942 (Klopper; Dan Pienaar; Erwin Rommel).Cuito Cuanavale 1988 (Jannie Geldenhuys; Fidel Castro)" Near Fine. Pictorial Laminated Wrappers. (##2334)    boereoorlog, boer war, abo, zulu war, zoeloe-oorlog, wwi, wêreldoorlog, world war, the great war, wwii, grensoorlog, bosoorlog, border war, bush war,

SPRINGBOK RECORD Compiled and Edited by HARRY KLEIN; Hardcover; Published by the South African Legion of the British Empire Sevice League 1946 ; No. of Pages; 302   plus addit. 2 pages of " Sponsors ".  Commemorates the service in World War II; Includes an insert a fold out 2 page  showing the   RIBBONS OF BRITISH ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND SERVICE MEDALS. " The story of the men who bore the " Orange Flash" of liberty on the battlefronts of the war against Nazi-Fascist tyranny . It soared in the skies with the gallant airmen of the S A A F ;  it rolled with the seamen of the little ships  of the S A N F  in the troughs of ocean battlegrounds. " Condition; Very good; The cover is pulling away from the book however the binding is still " good "  (Please see the second last photograph). No tears ; no browning; Pages crisp and sharp and clean. One name written neatly inside the front cover. Please see all the photographs. POSTAGE  - within SA) Preferably via POSTNET  to Postnet  for a parcel of up to 5kg (addit. books may be included - up to 5kg) Or via PAXI /Pep Stores  to your closest Pep Store ;  delivery around 9 days; add R55.00 under Option 1;  Please add Pep Stores to the Notes. Or via SA PO (  delays may occur)   with tracking no. then please add R60.00 Buyers from outside of SA  may contact me for a postal quote. Below ; 2 pages of SPONSORS Second World WAR World War 2 World War 11  South African involvement; participation in; South African Forces Air Force Airforce Navy  Orange Flash  General Smuts North Africa  Dessert war military army South african Anti aircraft Regiment  Desert campaigns  El Alamein Brigadier  B F Armstrong Afrika Korps  6th S A Division South Africa'c V C s  Royal Natal Carineers  Jelib Abyssinia    

After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Thrust by the British into the campaign against Erwin Rommels German Afrika Korps in North Africa, the South Africans fought a see-saw war of defeats followed by successes, culminating in the Battle of El Alamein, where South African soldiers made a significant contribution to halting the Desert Foxs advance into Egypt. This is the story of an army committed somewhat reluctantly to a war it didnt fully support, ill-prepared for the battles it was tasked with fighting, and sent into action on the orders of its senior alliance partner. At its heart, however, this is the story of men at war. Paperback, 352 pages

In 2012  the South African Army celebrated its 100th birthday. What started out as a small, ill-equipped organisation grew into the most powerful army on the continent by the 1980s. Springboks, Troepies and Cadres tells the story of the SA army in telling the stories of the men who shaped it. A divergent group of soldiers, from general officers to ordinary foot soldiers, tells of the tragedies and triumphs of the battles they took part in. Their first-hand accounts vividly bring home the realities of being a soldier, while some of the officers divulge and discuss military strategy. The book is divided into four eras - World War I, World War II, the Border War and the post-1994 era. Historical battles, including Delville Wood (World War I) and El Alamein (World War II), come alive. The soldiers' stories have recurring themes: Through the army's entire history there was as an emphasis on keeping casualties to a minimum and a military ethos that glorified effectiveness rather than sacrifice. The author also takes a hard look at the state of the SA army in 2012 and the assortment of challenges it faces - from a lack of resources to racial tension and poor discipline. Yet, for the most part, these stories of the army offer a gripping and inspirational historical record. Paperback, 220 pages