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Battlefields Exploring the Arenas of War 1805 - 1945  Consultant Editor: Michael Rayner A first edition hardcover published by Struik in 2006 Brown cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no inscriptions, dustjacket is complete clean & bright Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation  

 BATTLEFIELDS - EXPLORING THE ARENAS OF WAR 1805-1945 This is a very large, very heavy  hard covered book of 168 pages with dust cover. It is beautifully illustrated and includes the battles of ISANDLWANA, RORKE'S DRIFT and SPIOEN KOP.  It is in excellent condition but has a personal inscription on the first page. •The postage on this item will be R85.00 within S. A. (with tracking) •If outside South Africa please contact me re payment & postage before bidding. •I do not have a PayPal facility. •Please email any queries. •If you think the description in my listing is incorrect, please email me. •The photograph you are viewing in this listing is the actual item for sale.  

 BATTLEFIELDS - EXPLORING THE ARENAS OF WAR 1805-1945 This is a very large, very heavy  hard covered book of 168 pages with dust cover. It is beautifully illustrated and includes the battles of ISANDLWANA, RORKE'S DRIFT and SPIOEN KOP.  It is in excellent condition but has a personal inscription on the first page. •The postage on this item will be R70.00 within S. A. (with tracking) •If outside South Africa please contact me re payment & postage before bidding. •I do not have a PayPal facility. •Please email any queries. •If you think the description in my listing is incorrect, please email me. •The photograph you are viewing in this listing is the actual item for sale.  

Buy BATTLEFIELDS: EXPLORING THE ARENAS OF WAR, 1805-1945 - CONSULTANT EDITOR MICHAEL RAYNER for R350.00

Buy Battlefields Exploring the Arenas of War 1805 - 1945 Consultant Editor: Michael Rayner for R200.00

2006 first edition very large hardcover with dust jacket and 168 pages in very good condition. R65 postage in SA. Includes Anglo-Boer War Spioenkop and Paardeberg, Anglo-Zulu War Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. Napoleonic Wars Waterloo and Austerlitz, Jena and Salamanca. WW1 Gallipoli, Fort Vaux, Verdun, Somme, Vimy Ridge. WW2 Pearl Harbor, El Alamain, Arnhem and Battle of Bulge.

AFRICA@WAR SERIES: VOLUME 34 War of Intervention in Angola - Volume 2: Angolan and Cuban Forces at War, 1976-1983  - Adrien Fontanellaz  As of mid-1976, the civil war in Angola was seemingly decided: supported by a large contingent of Cuban forces, the MPLA established itself in power in Luanda. Its native competitors, the US-French-Zaire-supported FNLA, and UNITA, supported by China and South Africa, were in tatters. The French and Zaire-supported FLEC an armed movement for the independence of the oil-rich Cabinda enclave was in disarray. The last few of their surviving units were either driven out of the country, or forced into hiding in isolated corners of northern and south-eastern Angola. Nevertheless, the war went on. The MPLAs government failed to decisively defeat UNITA, in southern Angola, and then found itself facing a coup attempt from within in May 1977. Crushed in blood, this resulted in thousands being jailed and tortured: many more escaped abroad, where they reinforced the ranks of the battered opposition. The coup prompted the Soviets to attempt increasing their influence with the aim of establishing permanent military bases in the country. While all such overtures were turned down, Angolan operations along the border to what was then the South-West Africa (subsequently Namibia) in October 1980, combined with the increased activity of SWAPO an insurgency against the South African control of that territory - subsequently Namibia prompted South Africa to launch another military intervention and resume supporting UNITA. In turn, this prompted not only the Cubans to further increase their military presence, but also the Soviet Union into delivering massive amounts of military aid to the government in Luanda. Angola not only assumed the role of one of the major hot battlefields in the Cold War: its civil war saw a number of major showdowns between diverse belligerents, culminating in the Battle of Cangamba in 1983. Based on extensive research, with help of Angolan and Cuban sources, the War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 2, traces the military build-up of the Cuban and Soviet-supported Angolan military, the FAPLA and its combat operations, and those of the Cuban military in Angola, in the period 1976-1983, their capabilities and intentions, and their battlefield performances. The volume is illustrated with over 100 rare photographs, half a dozen maps and 18 colour profiles. Paperback, 80 pages. 

  Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Publisher: Struik Publishers. 2006. 168 pages.

Interest in KwaZulu-Natals battlefields especially those of the Anglo-Zulu War has soared since the film Zulu first screened in 1964, followed by Zulu Dawn in 1979 (the centenary of the Anglo-Zulu War). During the centenary, the famous battlefields of Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift were made tourist-friendly by the then Natal Provincial Administration and controls were put in place by the heritage authorities to prevent relics from being plundered. Supported by effective marketing from the Battlefield Route Association and the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Tourism Authority, the battlefields have become a must-see. Indeed, Rorkes Drift has become a tourist icon. Specialist battlefield guides have been trained and are considered to be among the best in the world. New hotels and lodges have been built with battlefield tourism resulting in the creation of an estimated 7,500 permanent jobs in what is termed the Battlefield Region.  There are, of course, many more Anglo-Zulu War sites to be seen: Discovering the Battlefields will enable visitors to find them and to read an account that is not too lengthy yet has sufficient content to bring it to life. GPS co-ordinates will enable those wishing to undertake a journey of exploration. The book is also a useful training manual for prospective battlefield guides. Above all, however, the author shares his knowledge gleaned from over 50 years of researching the Anglo-Zulu War. He has blended first-hand accounts passed on from participants on both sides to subsequent generations with official or newly-researched information that has become available in recent years. It is written in a style that is neither technical nor dramatic, is extensively illustrated with photographs of personalities and places and includes comprehensive maps of all the battle sites. Paperback, 256 pages with illustrations & maps Published November 2013

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2005. Hard cover with dust cover, 340 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound, neat and clean. Under 1kg. The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored.Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible stories of the boys who went to fight for their country. Richard van Emden, having amassed a unique collection of personal testimonies and hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, brings to life their stories of heroism and sacrifice.