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DER GENERAL.....Die Schweiz im Krieg 1939 - 45  (Hans Rudolf SCHMID)     AUTHOR - HANS RUDOLF SCHMID TITLE - DER GENERAL......DIE SCHWEIZ IM KRIEG 1939 - 45 PUBLISHER - RINGIER-DOKUMENTE THIS EDITION - COPYRIGHT YEAR OF PUBLICATION - 1974 BINDING - HARD COVER DUSTJACKET - NONE NUMBER OF PAGES - 95 CONDITION - SMALL WEAR AND TEAR ON TOP SPINE, SOME WEAR TO CORNERS AND BUMP MARK'S, INSCRIPTION IN PEN ON THE FIRST PAGE. POSTAGE - R55-00  

    Alfred Hein Der alte Teufelskerl Leipzig (ca. 1940), 1st edition, hard cover, 79 pages, text in German, spine with some damages, otherwise     in excellent antiquarian condition      Deutsches Reich Wehrmacht Afrikakorps Nazi Germany World War II Hitler Stalin Churchill Roosevelt Ostfront Dresden atrocities expulsion Luftwaffe Waffen-SS Third Reich Panzertruppe Paratroopers Stormfront Fallschirmjäger Stuka

General Condition: *fair Cover/Dust Cover: *fair, quite worn around the edges & a little old insect damage Owners Inscriptions: *on the first page Pages: *fair, yellowed with foxing Additional notes: *none *Postage & Packaging R30 *To SAVE on postage I am always happy to combine items won on different auctions. *Optional insurance at 3% of item's value (for orders over R100)

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Author: Marita van der Vyver Publisher: Penguin () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good. General wear to cover edges and corners. Binding: Softcover Pages: 214 Dimensions: 17.9 x 11 x 1.3 cm +++ by Marita van der Vyver +++ Griet's husband has chucked her out, she's lost her baby, she's even found herself with her head in a gas oven. She is trying to restart her life and draws comfort from the wisdom of the folk tales that are an inheritance from her grandparents. Then she meets Adam, an angel disguised as a surfer.   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.

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  3 x Seldom found books concerning the Second World War 2 x Books in German, 1 x Book in Flemish. 1)  - Geheim aus dem archiv der reichsregierung und bilddokumente zur vorgeschichte des zweiten weltkrieges (secret from the archive of the German Government and image documents on the history of the second world war). A Large softcover book about many secret documents regarding Germany in WWII. 456 pages, with 650 documents. Inscription on title page (See photographs) The covers has lots of wear to edges & corners, yet the content & binding still very good. 2) DER GENERAL - DIE SCHWEITZ IM KRIEG 1939 - 1945. Hans Rudolf Schmid. Large A4 size, 95 pages, no jacket, inscribed on half-title page, German, small red smudge on front cover, o/a very good. 3) DE SCHOK VAN HET ONBEKENDE - Vlaardingen tijdens crisis, bezetting en bevrijding (1936 - 1947) By Drs Klaas Kornaat, signed by the author. A4 size, includes jacket, 223 pages, Flemish, minor wear to jacket, content & binding good. Please look at thumbnail photos. Postage: R150.00 Postnet, R80.00 S.A.P.O. or R75.00 Paxi (Due to weight)  

The first ever Special Forces for the SADF started with a small group of eleven men under the command of Commandant Jan Breytenbach all handpicked by him in 1970. They commenced their training in Oudtshoorn and all 11 men did specialised courses in something they were not qualified for in as yet. e.g. divers, demolition, parachute jumping. etc. The group was divided into two and also did courses in France in that year. Their first deployment took place into Angola. With the influx of more members, the group was changed to a Special Forces Unit in 1972 known as 1 Reconnaissance Commando. It was decided that the unit was to be moved and in December 1974 the unit relocated to the Bluff in Durban. The unit grew in numbers as more and more men qualified as Special Forces Operators. The decision was made to form three subunits: Airborne (Commandant Swart), Seaborne (Commandant Kinghorn) and Pseudo operators (Commandant Verster). The Seaborne group moved to Langebaan (4 Reconnaissance Commando) the Pseudo group to Dukuduku in Zululand (5 Reconnaissance Commando). A headquarter element was stationed in Pretoria, under command of General Loots. In 1982 they moved into their own Headquarter buildings just outside of Thaba Tshwane. In 1975 a Citizen Force unit 2 Reconnaissance Commando, under the command of Commandant Sybie van der Spuy, was formed to accommodate all members that had left the Permanent Forces units as citizen forces members. With the independence of Zimbabwe, members of the Selous Scouts and Rhodesian SAS were given a choice to join the SADF. The members that took this opportunity were transferred into two units: The Scouts as 3 Reconnaissance Commando in Phalaborwa and Rhodesian SAS as 6 Reconnaissance Commando in Durban. A year later these units amalgamated into the Permanent Force Units: 3 Reconnaissance Commando became part of 5 Reconnaissance Regiment and 6 Reconnaissance Commando became part of 1 Reconnaissance Regiment when the Commandos became Regiments in 1981. The volume of operations increased and more and more support personnel were transferred into Special Forces to support the operators in their task. The author served in Special Forces as a signaller for 5 Reconnaissance Regiment and then Special Forces Headquarter for a number of years. He did his parachute course with other support personnel at the age of 35. His responsibilities included the training of operators in communications radio and Morse code, the control of operational communications networks, plus all cryptography work. This book on South African Special Forces depicts the Pictorial History from the beginning up to 1994. It is the 4th edition, and the 1st pictorial version of the history of the South African Special Forces, Operators and Operations. There are more than 2000 pictures of 420 full color A4 pages bound in a hardcover showing pictures of events never before captured in one print.  FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINT - NOVEMBER 2014