Desert war 1st edition

The North African Campaign 1940-1943. Abridged edition of Alan Moorehead's classic Africa Trilogy describing the Campaign during the Second World War in which South African forces played such a pivotal roll. First edition hardcover with dust jacket published 1965. 250 pages with index. Illustrated throughout and fold-out map intact. Sound condition with wear and tear to jacket, as pictured. Tracked postage is R60.00  

The North African Campaign 1940-1943. Abridged edition of Alan Moorehead's classic Africa Trilogy describing the Campaign during the Second World War in which South African forces played such a pivotal roll. First edition hardcover with dust jacket published 1965. 250 pages with index. Illustrated throughout and fold-out map intact. Sound condition with wear and tear to jacket, as pictured. Tracked postage is R65.00  

 1st Edition (1980)  World War I - by John Keegan & Susanne Everett. This item is in GOOD CONDITION The Dustjacket is missing, however, ALL PAGES & ILLUSTRATIONS ARE PRESENT AND CLEAR. SPINE AND BINDING ARE IN PERFECT CONDITION.   NB: NO FOREIGN BIDDERS NO PERSONAL COLLECTION OF ITEMS PAYMENT TO BE MADE IN 7 DAYS OR AN SNC WILL BE FILED SEE SHIPPING OPTIONS.

Buy *1st edition* The Whispering Death by Daniel Carney (Rhodesia - Bush War - Border War) for R650.00

General Ben Viljoen My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War (1902) Published: Hood, Douglas & Howard, London, 1902 Edition: First Edition   Publisher's red cloth binding with black titles. Manilla Paper. No foxing, Browned edges from age. Cover stained and taped with cellotape Piece of the spine cover missing. binding with some age associated edge wear. Very light water stain to first 5 pages not affecting the type. Maps and Plates all good and clear. Would do great with a restored or new Cover.Inner pages clear with very minor browning. General Viljoen never returned to South Africa after the war as he refused to become a subject of the British Empire. In 1909 he was granted U.S. citizenship. He was familiar with both Theodore Roosevelt and Mexican Revolutionary Francisco Madero. He fought on the side of Madero at the battle of Ciudad Juarez. His book is described as being 'a realistic description of the war from a Boer perspective'.Some excerpts from Mendelssohn Vol.II: 'The author was instructed by General Joubert to proceed to the Natal frontier, and he subsequently joined the troops under General Kock's command. He does not appear to have had a high opinion of his leader, and remarks, possibly if we "had had less to do with arrogant and stupid old men, we should have reached Cape Town or Durban." From time to time he expresses his discontent with most of the Boer Generals of the old school, and he was extremely impatient of their super-caution, credulity, and superstition, which brought him on several occasions to the verge of insubordination, whilst at times he considered that he had been slighted by Joubert, who appears to have been dubious as to the courage of the leader and his Johannesburg men.' The so-called Handsuppers 'were regarded by the General as traitors, and there is an account of the "execution" of Meyer De Kock who came to Viljoen's camp to induce his men to surrender, and who, it is stated, was the first man who first suggested to the British authorities the establishment of concentration camps. The Boer General defends the blowing up of trains, which he considered quite as justifiable as the burning of houses, and was, he asserts, no doubt as distasteful to him as the latter was to Lord Kitchener.' 'He was sent to St. Helena on February 19th, and speaks with some dissatisfaction of his treatment on the island.'

DOGS OF WAR BY PEET COETZEE-SIGNED 1ST EDITION 2ND PRINT- 298 PAGES-CONDITION NEW    

Buy BATTLES of the BOER WAR W. BARING PEMBERTON 1964 1st EDITION BATSFORD MODDER RIVER MAGERSFONTEIN. for R120.00

Buy EXIT RHODESIA=PAT SCULLY=1984=1st EDITION=FROM UDI to MARXISM=MUGABE=SMITH=WAR. for R785.00

Buy EXIT RHODESIA=PAT SCULLY=1984=1st EDITION=FROM UDI to MARXISM=MUGABE=SMITH=WAR. for R850.00

 1992 First Edition Hard Cover 208pp Very good in very good dust jacket. Some shelfwear, small nicks and chips to DJ, some foxing to pages, otherwise clean and tightly bound Colour, b&w illustrations, maps

 This is an ex-lib but book and wrapper remain good but not perfect - Hamish Hamilton, First Edition, 1965. 250pp, - The book was published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the war in North Africa that was to culminate in Montgomery's victory at Alamein.  *N.B.*   If you buy more than one book from me you only pay R 6 postage on each additional book – see what else I have to offer, it might be worth your while.  

Top-Scoring Allied Fighter Pilot of WW II researched and written by E C R Barker. First South African edition hardcover with dust jacket printed by Ashanti, 1992, as part of their Aviators of Africa series. 228 pages with index. Illustrated. Very good condition. The story of an outstanding fighter pilot and a great leader of men, the unknown ace of the Royal Air Force. Pattle was born in the Cape and raised on a lonely farm in Namibia. He discovered early in his life a keen desire within him to fly. He was rejected by the South African Air Force in 1933, but became more determined than ever to achieve his ambition. Pattle left South Africa to join the Royal Air Force before the war and achieved a success out of all proportion to expectations. He did much to help the hard-pressed troops on the ground. On 20 April 1941, a sick man, he led the remnants of his own and another squadron against an armada of over a hundred German aircraft. In the desperate fighting that followed, he shot down at least two enemy aircraft and then dived to the rescue of one of his pilots. The odds were too heavy and seconds later his aircraft, with Pattle slumped over the controls, crashed in the Bay of Eleusis. Tracked postage is R50.00.

Helicopter Warfare in Africa.  Large format hardcover with good dust jacket published by Southern,1994. Covers the history of helicopter use throughout Africa, from the war in Algeria and Rhodesia (1962-80) to the last days of Somalia. 240 pages, illustrated throughout. An excellent reference. Tracked postage is R60.00.

War Stories *Signed* Up close and personal in third world conflicts / by Al J. Venter and friends.                                             Venter, Al J. Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2011. 1st Edition  

Buy WAR in the AIR=RHODESIAN AIRFORCE 1935-1980=Dudley Cowderoy & Roy C. Nesbit=1st Edition for R245.00