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Going to the Wars studies the British Civil War as a military experience. It is not a traditional campaign history, a political history of the war, or an analysis of weapons, organization, supply or tactics. Rather Charles Carlton explains how men prepared for combat, how they fought battles and endured sieges. Others also endured the horrors of war and the book pays special attention to those often excluded from a military panorama: women, children and prisoners of war. Combining extensive research in primary sourses with the work of the new military historians such as John Keegan and Richard Holmes, Carlton provides a fresh look at the event once described by G.M. Trevelyan as the most important happening in British history.

             Shipping Can be combined please discuss with me     POSTAGE: See Shipping Tab for Postage Fees. I  pack all all items very securely which affects the size and weight of the package. I  always try to post within 3 working days where possible. will always keep buyer informed. Please Note: Postage fees are estimated on the size and weight of the package. ITEMS  Can Be Combined an I do accept COLLECTIONS on arrangement     ITEM Description - Embroidered British Civil Defence Corps Patch Badge-Kings Crown 68x82mm CONDITION:      SOLD as FOUND - -Please see ALL IMAGES                                                                                                      

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 British and Foreign Ribbons, Naval, Military, Air Force  and Civil, By Captain H. Tarrell Dorling, A 5 small soft cover, illustrated, some wear.

             Shipping Can be combined please discuss with me   POSTAGE: See Shipping Tab for Postage Fees. I  pack all all items very securely which affects the size and weight of the package. I  always try to post within 3 working days where possible. will always keep buyer informed. Please Note: Postage fees are estimated on the size and weight of the package. ITEMS Can Be Combined an I do accept COLLECTIONS on arrangement         ITEM Description - POSTAGE  CAN BE COMBINED British South African CPS Civil Protection Services Badge from WW2. Bronze Please see all photo's -Sold as found                                                                                                            

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Order of Orange-Nassau The Order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has earned special merits for society". These are people who deserve appreciation and recognition from society for the special way in which they have carried out their activities. The lower grades of the order are comparable with the ranks of the British OBE.

AFRICA@WAR SERIES: VOLUME 7 MAU MAU: THE KENYAN EMERGENCY 195260 The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya, from Borneo to Suez, the dominoes began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the late 1940s and 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to India, and the emergence of a credible indigenous intellectual and political caste that was poised to inherit control from the waning European imperial powers.  The British on the whole managed to disengage from Africa with a minimum of ill feeling and violence, conceding power in the Gold Coast, Nigeria and Sierra Leone under an orderly constitutional process, and engaging only in the suppression of civil disturbances in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia as the practicalities of a political handover were negotiated. In Kenya, however, matters were different.  A vociferous local settler lobby had accrued significant economic and political authority under a local legislature, coupled with the fact that much familial pressure could be brought to bear in Whitehall by British settlers of wealth and influence, most of whom were utterly irreconciled to the notion of any kind of political handover. Mau Mau was less than a liberation movement, but much more than a mere civil disturbance. Its historic importance is based primarily on the fact that the Mau Mau campaign was one of the first violent confrontations in sub-Saharan Africa to take place over the question of the self-determination of the masses. It also epitomized the quandary suffered by the white settler communities of Africa who had been promised utopia in an earlier century, only to be confronted in a post-war world by the completely unexpected reality of black political aspiration.  This book journeys through the birth of British East Africa as a settled territory of the Empire, and the inevitable politics of confrontation that emerged from the unequal distribution of resources and power. It covers the emergence and growth of Mau Mau, and the strategies applied by the British to confront and nullify what was in reality a tactically inexpert, but nonetheless powerfully symbolic black expression of political violence.  That Mau Mau set the tone for Kenyan independence somewhat blurred the clean line of victory and defeat. The revolt was suppressed and peace restored, but events in the colony were nevertheless swept along by the greater movement of Africa toward independences, resulting in the eventual establishment of majority rule in Kenya in 1964. Paperback, 72 pages

Hardcover with laminated boards. Written by John Laband, published by University of Natal Press, 2001. 140 pages. Tracked postage is R60.00. The Later Zulu wars of the 1880s were a last-ditch resistance to colonialism combined with bitter civil war, and their consequences proved more devastating for the Zulu people than the famous Anglo-Zulu war of 1879.  They took place at a time of changing fighting methods and tactics for both the British and the Zulu - the last time the British Army went on campaign wearing scarlet was in Zululand in 1888. This book explains the nature of the diverse Zulu, British and Boer military forces fighting in Zululand, and the ways in which the British and the Boers fostered and exploited divisions among the Zulu people in order to maintain colonial control. The author's research (supported by detailed maps) traces the complex series of wars and battles in Zululand during the 1880s. He places the campaigns in their historical context and assesses their broader significance.

 Cuito Cuanavale - 12 Months Of War That Transformed A Continent - Fred Bridgland - Jonathan Ball - 2017 - Paperback in good, clean and tight condition. “As we advanced the tanks began firing ahead speculatively. It was an amazing sight. After an Olifant [tank] unleashed a 105 mm shell you saw a path opening up through the forest just like the Red Sea divided for Moses.” 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.   inRead invented by Teads 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 final battles of the war in 1987 and 1988 had an impact far beyond the borders of Namibia and Angola. They not only spelled the end of the last great neo-colonial attempts at African conquest by Cuba and the former Soviet Union, but also made possible the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa. Fred Bridgland is a veteran British foreign correspondent and author who covered the Angolan civil war and the Border War for Reuters as an Africa correspondent in the 1970s and then for the Sunday Telegraph and The Scotsman in the 1980s. In 1975 his discovery of South Africa’s secret US-engineered invasion of Angola uncovered the CIA’s involvement in the Angolan civil war, and was a world scoop. Bridgland has written a number of books and has just completed a biography of Winnie Mandela.

Subtitle: First-Hand Accounts From The Last British Survivors Of The Spanish Civil War Author: Max Arthur Publisher: Collins ()  ISBN 10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 304 Dimensions: 23.3 x 15 x 2.2  cm +++ by Max Arthur +++ Acclaimed oral historian Max Arthur has captured the memories of the last eight British survivors of this brutal and intense war, which claimed over lives.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Signed copy; gift inscribed. Small soft cover. 80 pages. Good condition. The cover has slight folds. Under 1kg. Although shortsighted rather deaf and born with a deformed foot this somehow soldier” was recruited by General George Brink for the Union Defence Force and served as an intelligence staff officer under General Manie Botha. The chapters cover: The Mounted Commando Division; the SA Tank Corps armoured cars; secondment to the British Army for military government duties; training at the Civil Affairs Staff College in England; posting to Algeria for service in Italy; the Garigliano Front and Anzio; posting to the US Army for service in France; Normandy and Orleans; Belgium and Holland; the first British military government to operate in Germany.    

Date: 1945 Campaign: Second World War Branch of Service: British and Commonwealth forces. Clasps: None, but the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct emblem is worn on the ribbon. Comments: Awarded to service personnel for three years' service at home, one year's service in a non-operational area (e.g India) or six months' service overseas in territories subjected to air attack or otherwise closely threatened. Personnel of Anti-Aircraft Command, RAF ground crews, Dominion forces stationed in the UK, the Home Guard, Civil Defence, National Fire Service and many other civilian units qualified for the medal.     Please also note that  Axis Militaria   will be closing their auctions from 19:00 pm to 20:00 pm Sunday Night. (SAST, GMT+2)