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1960 hardcover with dust jacket and 256 pages in good secondhand condition. Browning to all pages edges. 6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 naval vessels, 24 hours. D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitler's formidable 'Fortress Europe' - was the largest amphibious invasion in history. There has never been a battle like it, before or since. But beyond the statistics and over sixty years on, what is it about the events of D-Day that remain so compelling? The courage of the men who fought and died on the beaches of France? The sheer boldness of the invasion plan? Or the fact that this, Rommel's 'longest day', heralded the beginning of the end of World War II. One of the defining battles of the war, D-Day is scored into the imagination as the moment when the darkness of the Third Reich began to be swept away. This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors - from high-ranking Allied and German officers, to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before dawn, the infantry who struggled ashore and the German troops who defended the coast.Cornelius Ryan captures the horror and the glory of D-Day, relating in emotive and compelling detail the years of inspired tactical planning that led up to the invasion, its epic implementation and every stroke of luck and individual act of heroism that would later define the battle. In the words of its author, The Longest Day is a story not of war, but of the courage of man.

The Longest Day - The D-Day Story   By: Cornelius Ryan A second impression hardcover published by Victor gollancz in 1960 Red cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, previous owners signature on front title page, Dustjacket is mostly complete, 3cm missing from spine bottom & nick & tear to spine & bookends Postage inside South Africa R30.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quote  

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***PLEASE NOTE WE DELIVER TO CAPE TOWN, JOHANNESBURG AND BLOEMFONTEIN*** Name of collection/ series: We Fight TB - Dr. Robert Koch Year of issue: 1982 Country code: R.S.A. Item code: FDC 3.35 Signed by: This first day cover is signed my Cornelius van der Merwe. He was a South African politician and member of the National Party. In 1982 he became the minister of health and welfare. On August 17, 1984 he suffered a heart attack from which he recovered. However, less than a year later on 26 April 1985, he died in his sleep.

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SRI LANKA, 1984 and 1988. The 6th and 10th Anniversary of "Gam Udawa", Village Re-awakening Movement.      WM: None  Perf: 12  x 12 ½.  Single issue for the day,  used, not hinged. Black mark on back and short perfs.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description, CV +/-R 12.00. Note, display card not  included, and,  t he horizontal lines across the images are due to   the display card that we use to scan items.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 The D-Day story researched and written by Cornelius Ryan. First edition hardcover with dust jacket published by Gollancz, 1961. 256 pages with index. Illustrated. Good sound copy. Tracked postage is R50.00.

 Victor Gollancz, first published April 1960, 2nd impression before publication. Unclipped jacket has some wear and tear. Pages clean and tightly bound. Several photographs illustrate this D-DAY history.

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    WWII SPECIAL SERVICE BATTALION TITLE BADGE The Special Service Battalion (SSB) is a South African military unit formed on 1 May 1933 under the patronage of Oswald Pirow, Minister of Defence. The object was to give training to youths, between the ages of 17 and 23, who, in the wake of the 1929 depression, could find no suitable employment on leaving school.   History Lt Col George E Brink was given the responsibility for establishing the battalion at Roberts Heights and was the first commanding officer. The SSB was established to save the youth from physical and moral degeneration caused by massive unemployment due to the Great Depression. The SSB was to teach the young men military discipline, fitness and various trades to enable them to be employed by the Department of Labour and Welfare. The SSB men received a salary of a shilling a day causing the SSB soon to be known as the "Bob a Day Battalion".  In 1934 detachments were also established for 100 trainees at Durban and 150 at Cape Town. Training included elementary military subjects and physical training. After a year of the young men usually found employment in government departments or with civilian employers. By 1936 the output of the SSB totalled about 2000 youths a year. In 1937 the South African Railways established at Roberts Heights a special school to prepare boys for the railways. In 1937 3788 youths passed through the ranks of the SSB. A total of 882 of them joined the Permanent Force.  With the expansion of the South African Air Force in 1937 the SSB provided 248 air apprentices for special training but, with the improvement in the economic situation, the waiting list to join the battalion had dwindled to almost nil.  With the outbreak of war in September 1939, members of the SSB were posted to units requiring immediate reinforcement to get on to a wartime basis. An example of this being the Coastal Artillery. In February 1940 a number of troops were transferred to the 1st and 2nd Field Force Battalions. These served with distinction in East Africa, Abyssinia and the Middle East as part of 1st South African Division.  SADF era 1 SSB Commemorative Letter In August 1941 all members of the SSB below the age of 18 were transferred to the Youth Training Brigade. The remainder formed an infantry battalion, which was converted to an armoured car commando in 1942.  In February 1943 the SSB, under Lt Col EG ('Papa') Brits, became part of the 11th SA Armoured Brigade. In March 1943 the Field Force Battalion was disbanded and other ranks and some of the officers were transferred to the SSB, thus providing a nucleus of battle-tested veterans.  The unit sailed for the Middle East with the 6th SA Armoured Division in April 1943. In 1944 the division crossed the Mediterranean Sea to take part in the Italian campaign. The regiment played a prominent part in numerous actions during the campaign.  In 1946, SSB was resuscitated as a Permanent Force unit and reorganised on a two-battalion basis with the 1st Battalion as an armoured unit and the 2nd Battalion infantry. The former became a training regiment in 1953 and the latter was renamed the 1 South African Infantry Battalion (1SAI) in 1951.   CONDITION:  Very Good. Lugs in tact. UNCLEANED. Sold as seen in the images. Images form part of the description.

Prince Alfred's Guard(PAG)1939-1945-Set-Cap Badge-Collar Badges-Shoulder Title At the beginning of the Second World War PAG provided reinforcements for units going to North Africa. In 1943 PAG converted to an armoured regiment  and was sent to Italy with the 6th SA Armoured Division where it saw active service. PAG remains an armoured regiment to this day