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Buffalo Battalion, south africa's 32 Battalion by L J Bothma A first edition softcover published by The Author in 2008 Picture cover boards are lightly age worn binding is tight & strong, gift inscription on first page Postage within S Africa R70 thru P Office Postnet or Courier options available Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote

BUFFALO BATTALION BY L.J. BOTHMA-1ST EDITION PUBLISHED 2008- 452 PAGES-CONDITION GOOD 9/10    

 Buffalo Battalion - South Africa's 32 Battalion by LJ Bothma  **Signed and with a message from the Author** First Print 2008 452 Pages The Book is in a very Good condition almost as new.     Please see our other medallion, pins and coins, books ext.   International bidders  are welcome.  (please enquire about postage)   Postage and packaging: R58.00 SA post office. Courier - R130.00, Postnet R109    

 Buffalo Battalion - South Africa's 32 Battalion by LJ Bothma  **Signed and with a message from the Author** First Print 2008 452 Pages The Book is in a very Good condition almost as new.     Please see our other medallion, pins and coins, books ext.   International bidders  are welcome.  (please enquire about postage)   Postage and packaging: R58.00 SA post office. Courier - R130.00, Postnet R115    

 Buffalo Battalion - South Africa's 32 Battalion by LJ Bothma  **Signed and with a message from the Author** First Print 2008 452 Pages The Book is in a very Good condition almost as new.     Please see our other medallion, pins and coins, books ext.   International bidders  are welcome.  (please enquire about postage)   Postage and packaging: R60.00 SA post office. Courier - R140.00, Postnet R115    

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 They Live by the sword - 32"Buffalo" Battalion - Col. Jan Breytenbach

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 first published 1990 hardcover with dustjacket  272 pages, dustjacket has one of two small marks, hardcover good, inscription on the first page, pages slightly yellow, one or two small spots in book, text is clean and the binding good- NO overseas shipping   Neem, asb kennis dat ek vanaf 8 Desember 2018 tot en met  8 Januarie 2019 uitstedig sal wees en dus nie in daar die tyd sal pos nie   Please note that I will be out of town from the 8 th of December 2018 till the 8 th of January 2019 and will not be able to post during that time    

 first published 1990 hardcover with dustjacket  272 pages, dustjacket has one of two small marks, hardcover good, inscription on the first page, pages slightly yellow, one or two small spots in book, text is clean and the binding good- NO overseas shipping     Neem, asb kennis dat ek voortaan elke skoolvakansie vir die hele vakansie  uitstedig is  en dus nie in daar die tyd sal pos nie   Please note that in future I will be out of town each school holiday for the  whole holiday will not be able to post during that time

This is a soldier's story about South African soldiers in southern Angola and Namibia and the enemies they fought. It tells of insurgency and counter-insurgency, guerrilla warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare, almost conventional warfare and conventional warfare. It tells of a conflict which the world saw as unpopular and unjust, in which South Africa was perceived as the aggressor. The South African soldiers who fought in it, however, saw it as a conflict fought to stop what is now Namibia falling into the hands of the Soviet and Cuban-backed SWAPO black nationalist political organisation. After Namibia South Africa would be next. They saw the whole conflict as an extension of the Cold War, but while it was on the frontiers in Europe, in Angola they were fighting a very hot war in Angola. Eventually, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the war was resolved by the democratic solution of UN supervised free and fair elections in Namibia. Since then, regrettably, there has been interference by the ruling party with the democratic constitution put in place in Namibia which has eroded much of that hard won democracy. 32 Battalion, of which Colonel Jan Breytenbach was the founding commander, became the most controversial unit in the South African Army because of the secrecy surrounding it. Its story is virtually the story of the Angolan/Namibian war, because its involvement in it was greater than any other South African unit. The regiment primarily consisted of black troops and NCOs originating from virtually every tribe in Angola. They were led by white South African officers and NCOs. Neither apartheid nor any form of racial discrimination was ever practiced in the unit. There was always a sprinkling of whites originating from countries like Great Britain, the old Rhodesia, Portugal and the USA amongst its leadership cadre, although in the latter stages of its existence this shrank to only a few. Such a presence undoubtedly led to stories circulating that the unit was a led by foreign white mercenaries. While it was true that the black Angolan element could have fallen with the mercenary definition, the whites involved were attested soldiers in the South African Army. In any case, they formed a minority and the vast majority of white officers and NCOs were born South Africans. The unit's aggressiveness and the successes it achieved in the field of battle, often against incredible odds, lay in its spirit and its  espirit de corps. In this respect and in many other ways it compared favourably with the French Foreign Legion. Its story parallels with and reminds one of the British and British Commonwealth Chindits of World War-2, operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma in large formations, out-guerrillaing those who only three years earlier had been regarded in awe as the unbeatable jungle warfare experts. Likewise, 32-Battalion consistently outfought both FAPLA, SWAPO and the Cubans in the Angola bush throughout the war years. It created a problem to which neither they nor their Soviet and East German mentors ever found a solution to. After the 1989 Namibian settlement the unit was with withdrawn to South Africa where they were deployed to effectively deal with MK infiltrations into the north of South Africa. From there, after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, they were redeployed to deal with political troubles, principally between armed ANC self defense units and armed units of the IFP. The intrusion of black foreigners into the townships who were prepared to deal with troubles robustly and without fear or favour, did not suit either the ANC or the IFP, as they could not be subverted to support local causes because they held no local tribal allegiances. In the end it seems they became something of a bargaining chip at the CODESA negotiations, designed to find a new political dispensation for South Africa. Despite it having borne the brunt of South Africa' war in Angola with the blood of its troops, the National Party Government disgracefully ordered its arbitrary disbandment in March 1993 and the unit ceased to exist. Paperback, 360 pages with photos & maps  

They Live by The Sword by Col Jan Breytenbach 32 'Buffalo' Battalion - South Africa's Foreign Legion 1st Print 1990  Hard cover Book with 272 pages. The book is in a very good condition. Clean copy with no inscriptions.     Please see the Photo's as part of the description. Sold as per scan. International  Bidders Welcome (Please inquire about shipping costs) Postage and Packaging: Shipping includes time, labor, packaging material and travel costs Post Office: R58 (With Tracking number) --- Courier R130 up to 5 kg Postnet: R109  Items can be combined on request.              

1986.  Soft cover. 149 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound, neat and clean. Und er 1kg. In Forged in Battle, Jan Breytenbach presents a soldier's (as opposed to a historian's) account of the guerrilla and conventional battles fought by 32 "Buffalo" Battalion of the SADF - an elite battalion consisting of former FNLA guerrillas from Angola, led by white South African officers and NCOs. 32 Battalion was formed in great secrecy from the rag-tag, half-starved remnants of the Angolan guerrilla movement, the FNLA. The founding commander, a former "Recce" (South African equivalent of the SAS), turned these unwanted orphans from the Angolan guerrilla war into one of the most respected and feared units to see action in Namibia and Angola in later years.

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The Buffalo Soldiers - The Story of South Africa's 32 Battalion 1975-1993 By: Col. Jan Breytenbach A softcover edition published by Galago in 2004 Picture cover boards are clean & bright but with bump at rear cover spine top & light rub book ends Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation