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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.  

Published: Times Media Limited with Jonathan Ball Publishers Year: First Published 1991 Cover: Hard cover with dust jacket intact. The dust jacket has been covered in a neat protective plastic sleeve. The boards of the hard cover shows some wear. Condition to an average observer: Excellent Combined Weight: 1,6 kg   Important Notice Conditions of sale apply: Under all circumstances, contact us first via the question and answer box to ascertain the following before placing your order or making payment: availability of the item, price and method of posting: i.e. PostNet to PostNet, Courier Service, Post Office or otherwise. Wait for the confirmation e-mail or answer

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.

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

Buy The Battlefields of the First World War Peter Barton hardcover in box cover 374 pages for R450.00

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.

On the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African-American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist limitations set upon them by others -- proving themselves as tough, reliable, and determined to fight as any tank unit in combat. Beginning in November 1944, they engaged the enemy for 183 straight days, spearheading many of Patton's offensives at the Battle of the Bulge and in six European countries. No other unit fought for so long and so hard without respite. The 761st defeated more than 6,000 enemy soldiers, captured thirty towns, liberated Jews from concentration camps -- and made history as the first African-American armored unit to enter the war. This is the true story of the Black Panthers, who proudly lived up to their motto (Come Out Fighting) and paved the way for African-Americans in the U.S. military -- while battling against the skepticism and racism of the very people they fought for.