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 MEN AT WAR The Best War Stories of All Time Edited with an Introduction by ERNEST HEMINGWAY ; Hardcover; Bramhall House; 1979; ISBN 0 517 02084 X; No. of Pages; 1072  "This book contains 82 great war stories of all time, selected by Ernest Hemingway to show what war is, how wars are won and lost, the great things and little things the courage and the pity of mern and women at war the Authors include; Virgil; Sir Thomas Malory; Tolstoy; T E Lawrence ; Stephen Crane; Victor Hugo; de Maupassant; Stendhal; Charles Oman; Sir Winston Churchill; James Hilton; Col. John W Thomapson;  William Falkner; Kipling; C S Forrester; Alexander Woollcott; Theodore Roosevelt; Marquis James; Dorothy Parker; Ambrose Bierce; Hemingway; and many others.... "  Condition ' Book and dust jacket; both very good  D/K  minimal damage on top of spine and 2 small nicks  Back top ; Book;  Very good tight binding, no tears and no writing added. Some light browning of the paper  on the outer  edges of the pages. Postage  (with in SA) Preferably via Postnet to Postnet for a parcel of up to 5kg (addit. books may be included - up to 5kg) then please add R100.00  Delivery via Postnet 3 to 4 working days  or via SA PO   with tracking no.  then please add R60.00  delivery around 10 working days. Buyers from outside of SA can contact me for a postal quote.          

Men at War edited  By: Ernest Hemingway A New Complete Edition hardcover published by Bramhall House in 1955 Red cover boards with black writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, foxing to front & rear flyleaves, dustjacket is complete but with rub & nicks to spine & bookends Packaging and Postage within South Africa R70.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation

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  PORT NO. 5 The online store with over a 1000 items Antiques, Vintage, Collectables, Books, Jewellery, Watches, Toys, Ornaments, Figurines, Art, Souvenirs, Badges, Smoking, Bar, Music, Magazines etc All our stock is local, posted within 48hrs, offers from R1, combine aditional items FREE To view all our offers please     New items are added daily   Combine this item with other small items and save on shipping. Others available, click link above Description Men at War 1914 - 1945, Pewter die cast soldier and historical information booklet Del Prado collection 1990's Issue 38 - French colonial and African troops, Sergeant, France 1914   Condition The Items are both in mint condition. Never been opened Please study the pics for more on the condition.    All our pics are of the actual item.        Postage You may postpone your payment if you are bidding on more than one item and want to group items together to save on postage. (get FREE postage - see shipping charges) If you are unsure about Shipping charges please ask a question and we will be glad to assist. Free shipping does not apply to furniture or large items     To view similar items on offers please  

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  PORT NO. 5 The online store with over a 1000 items Antiques, Vintage, Collectables, Books, Jewellery, Watches, Toys, Ornaments, Figurines, Art, Souvenirs, Badges, Smoking, Bar, Music, Magazines etc All our stock is local, posted within 48hrs, offers from R1, combine aditional items FREE To view all our offers please     New items are added daily   Combine this item with other small items and save on shipping. Others available, click link above Description Men at War 1914 - 1945, Pewter die cast soldier and historical information booklet Del Prado collection 1990's Issue 46 - Japanese Air forces of WWII, Pilot, JAAF -China 1943   Condition The Items are both in mint condition. Never been opened Please study the pics for more on the condition.    All our pics are of the actual item.      Postage You may postpone your payment if you are bidding on more than one item and want to group items together to save on postage. (get FREE postage - see shipping charges) If you are unsure about Shipping charges please ask a question and we will be glad to assist. Free shipping does not apply to furniture or large items     To view similar items on offers please  

This is the story of the sinking of the SS Mendi during WW1, the bravery of the men on board and the ensuing inquiry conducted by the Board of Trade in London. The story follows the small band of survivors to France where they complete their tour of duty. The First World War rages in Europe, it is a white mans war, but when the British government calls for 10 000 black soldiers to be sent to France as a labour force, men from around South Africa volunteer for service. In the foothills of the Drakensberg, Kula Hlongwane, an amaNgwane prince steps forward, followed by a group of his tribesmen. Madondo is ordered to accompany them. For him it is a nightmare from which there is no escape. When crossing the English Channel on the troopship, the SS Mendi, lights loom out of the thick black fog, then a siren blasts. With no time to avoid the collision, the Mendi is struck a devastating blow on the starboard side where Kula and his men lie sleeping. Within minutes, the Mendi begins to sink. The book makes use of various historical documents and the transcripts from the inquiry held in London by the Board of Trade to establish causality for the large loss of life. On conclusion of the inquiry, these transcripts were declared secret and concealed from view for the next 50 years. Men of the Mendi gives an in depth account of the inquiry and the apparent reason for the cover-up.  At 5 am on 21 February 1917, in thick fog about 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight, the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company cargo ship Darro accidentally rammed Mendi's starboard quarter, breaching her forward hold. Darro was an 11,484 GRT ship, much larger than Mendi, sailing in ballast to Argentina to load meat. Darro survived the collision but Mendi sank, killing 616 South Africans (607 of them black troops) and 30 crew. Some men were killed outright in the collision; others were trapped below decks. Many others gathered on Mendi's deck as she listed and sank. Oral history records that the men met their fate with great dignity. An interpreter, Isaac Williams Wauchope, who had previously served as a Minister in the Congregational Native Church of Fort Beaufort and Blinkwater, is reported to have calmed the panicked men by raising his arms aloft and crying out in a loud voice: "Be quiet and calm, my countrymen. What is happening now is what you came to do...you are going to die, but that is what you came to do. Brothers, we are drilling the death drill. I, a Xhosa, say you are my brothers...Swazis, Pondos, Basotho...so let us die like brothers. We are the sons of Africa. Raise your war-cries, brothers, for though they made us leave our assegais in the kraal, our voices are left with our bodies." The damaged Darro did not stay to assist. But Brisk lowered her boats, whose crews then rescued survivors. The investigation into the accident led to a formal hearing in summer 1917, held in Caxton Hall, Westminster. It opened on 24 July, sat for five days spread over the next fortnight, and concluded on 8 August. The court found Darro's Master, Henry W Stump, guilty of "having travelled at a dangerously high speed in thick fog, and of having failed to ensure that his ship emitted the necessary fog sound signals." It suspended Stump's licence for a year. Stump's decision not to help Mendi's survivors has been a source of controversy. One source states that it was because of the risk of attack by enemy submarines. Certainly Darro was vulnerable, both as a large merchant ship and having sustained damage that put her out of action for up to three months. But some historians have suggested that racial prejudice influenced Stump's decision, and others hold that he merely lost his nerve. Softcover, 320 pages. First published: February 2017

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1995 paperback with 456 pages in good condition. R55 postage in SA. The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this "forgotten war" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans. The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, and enemy number one was always the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed men into situations that so often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. Now, half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In the updated University of Alaska Press edition, Garfield supplements his original account, which was drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and many more illustrations.

  HarperCollins Publishers. Hardback. Book Condition: Very good, 2009, 1st edition. 388 pp. Alamein, Iain Gale, The superb novelist of men at war moves into the twentieth century and World War Two, telling the story of the eleven days in the sands of North Africa that would change history forever. There are some battles that change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its allies were in real difficulties: Germany and its Axis partners seemed to be triumphant everywhere - in Europe, in Russia, in the Atlantic and were now poised to take the Suez Canal. It was in North Africa that the stand was made, that the tide of World War Two began to turn. It was a battle of strong characters: the famous battle commander Rommel and the relatively untested new British commander, Montgomery, leading men who fought through an extraordinary eleven day battle, in an unforgiving terrain, amid the swirling sandstorms and the desert winds. Iain Gale, author of the outstanding historical novel Four Days in June on the battle of Waterloo, tells the dramatic story through seven characters, almost all based on real people. Drawn from both sides of the conflict, they include a major from a Scottish brigade, the young lieutenant in the thick of the tank battle, the Australian sergeant with the infantry, the tank commander of the Panzer Division and the charismatic Italian commander of a parachute battalion. Through them and others we see the flow of battle, the strategies, the individual actions and skirmishes, the fear, the determination, the extraordinary courage on both sides.