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The Irish Guards in the Great War (The First Battalion) By: Rudyard Kipling A third printing hardcover published by Spellmount in 1997 Red cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, nick and tear to spine & bookends Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation

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 HARDCOVER BOOK IN GREAT CONDITION, SPELLMOUNT 1997, 320 PAGES                                     WWI, FIRST WORLD WAR, REGIMENTAL HISTORY, IRELAND 

Teddy Luther's War - The Diary of a German American in an Irish Boer Commando Ed. Donal P. McCracken ***Signed Copy***  A first edition softcover published by 30 Degrees South in 2013 An ex school library copy, picture cover boards are clean but with a crease to front cover, binding is tight & strong, school stamp on first 2 pages, SIGNED by the author on the title page Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation  

Hardcover. English. John Murray. 1939 First Edition. ISBN: n/a. xiii+363 pp with 40 plates & 2 maps with 2 adverts for other title at the back. Good condition in slightly knocked green boards with new endpapers. Light foxing inside. Royal Dublin Fus. 1886, served in Rhodesia, Boer War (incl. Mafeking), commanded ANZAC Corps on Gallipoli & XXII Corps on the Western Front (Messines, Passchendaele, Somme 1918). Book No: 2501743

War memories of the Intelligence Officer of the 5th Bn Coldstream Guards 1944-45. First edition 1848 hardcover with 213 pages in very good condition. Dust jacket has wear around edges. Three pull-out maps at rear. R45 postage in SA.. 

War memories of the Intelligence Officer of the 5th Bn Coldstream Guards 1944-45. First edition 1848 hardcover with 213 pages in very good condition. Dust jacket has wear around edges. Three pull-out maps at rear. R50 postage in SA.. 

We combine postage, so do look at our other items on offer. Dispatched within 2 business days. Condition: Good. This collection of stories centers on the theme of the Irish Revolution. O'Connor is concerned with the way in which war imposes a false and cruel ethic on people, ruthlessly destroying human relationships. The title story has been widely acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of the short story form. About the author  () An Irish master of the short story, Frank O'Connor was born Michael O'Donovan in Cork. It is not surprising to learn in the first part of his autobiography, An Only Child (), that he took his adored mother's name. O'Connor's absorbing interest was the literary treasury of Ireland. He labored tirelessly over masterful translations of ancient Gaelic works. O'Connor wrote the well-received A Short History of Irish Literature: A Backward Look and edited an anthology of prose and poetry, A Book of Ireland (), which contains some of his own translations from the Gaelic. His Shakespeare's Progress () is an appraisal of the bard. In The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (), he examines the work of those he considers the great short story writers of the past. The subjects of his own stories are the middle and lower-middle classes of his beloved Ireland. In his last years, O'Connor lived mostly in the United States, where he taught at Harvard and Northwestern universities. Bibliographic information Title Guests of the Nation Author Frank O'Connor Edition reprint, Paperback Publisher Poolbeg, ISBN , Length 199 pages Subjects Fiction  ›  Literary Postage prices outside of South African borders will differ. Please enquire before purchasing. Please Click ---> HERE PTO Books is selling.  

  Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 224pp., list of illustrations. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece. Within the text there are another 7 black and white photographs. Maroon coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Corners of the book are bumped and rubbed and shelf wear evident to the top and bottom book edges. Illustrated dust wrapper, showing men in silhouettes with guards with a black, white and red background, with white and black writing on the front panel and white on the spine. The author spent two and a half years as a prisoner of war during Korea conflict. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Military History -- Prisoner- of- War; Military History -- Korean War;

2008 paperback edition with 318 pages brand new and unread. Signed by author on title page. R46 postage in SA.  Hoare is now 97 years old and lives in South Africa. Hoare was born in Ireland. He spent his early days in India and was educated in England. He served in North Africa and Italy as an officer in the London Irish Rifles during World War II, and achieved the rank of Captain. After the war, he completed his training as a chartered accountant, and qualified in 1948. He emigrated to Durban, Natal Province, Union of South Africa, where he ran safaris and became a soldier-for-hire in various African countries.Congo crisis - During the Congo Crisis Mike Hoare organized and led two separate mercenary groups:1960¿1961. Major Mike Hoare's first mercenary action was in Katanga, a province trying to break away from the newly independent Congo. The unit was called "4 Commando." During this time he married Phyllis Simms, an airline stewardess.1964. Congolese Prime Minister Moïse Tshombe hired "Major" Mike Hoare to lead a military unit called 5 Commando ANC (later led by John Peters) made up of about 300 men most of whom were from South Africa. His second in command was a fellow ex-British Army officer, Commandant Alistair Wicks. The unit's mission was to fight a revolt known as the Simba Rebellion. Later Hoare and his mercenaries worked in concert with Belgian paratroopers, Cuban exile pilots, and CIA-hired mercenaries who attempted to save 1,600 civilians (mostly Europeans and missionaries) in Stanleyville from the Simba rebels in Operation Dragon Rouge. This operation saved many lives. Hoare was later promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the ANC and 5 Commando expanded into a two-battalion force. Hoare commanded 5 Commando from July 1964 to November 1965.

AFRICA@WAR SERIES: VOLUME 6 CONGO UNRAVELLED: Military Operations from Independence to the Mercenary Revolt, 196068 Clearly and comprehensively explains the intrigues of the Congo wars Colonel Mike Hoare Post-independence events in the Republic of the Congo are a veritable Gordian knot. The ambitions of Congolese political leaders, Cold War rivalry, Pan-Africanism, Belgiums continued economic interests in the countrys mineral wealth, and the strategic perceptions of other southern African states all conspired to wrack Africas second largest country with uprisings, rebellions and military interventions for almost a decade. Congo Unravelled solves the intractable complexity of this violent period by dispassionately outlining the sequence of political and military events that took place in the troubled country. The reader is systematically taken through the first military attempts to stabilize the country after independence and the two distinguishing military campaigns of the decade - the United Nations military operations (Opration des Nations Unies au Congo, or ONUC) to end the secession of the Katanga Province, and the Dragon Operations led by Belgian paratroopers, supported by the US Air Force, launched to end the insurgency in the east of the country - are chronicled in detail. Finally, the mercenary revolt - an event that tainted the reputation of the modern mercenary in Africa - is described. Lesser known military events - Irish UN forces cut off from the outside world by Katangese gendarmes and mercenaries, and a combined military operation in which Belgian paratroopers were dropped from US Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft and supported by a mercenary ground force to achieve humanitarian ends - go far toward resolving the enigma surrounding post-independence Congo. Paperback, 72 pages. Illustrated throughout, including 8-page colour section.

2008 paperback edition with 318 pages brand new and unread. Signed by author on title page. R60 postage in SA.  Hoare is now 98 years old and lives in South Africa. Hoare was born in Ireland. He spent his early days in India and was educated in England. He served in North Africa and Italy as an officer in the London Irish Rifles during World War II, and achieved the rank of Captain. After the war, he completed his training as a chartered accountant, and qualified in 1948. He emigrated to Durban, Natal Province, Union of South Africa, where he ran safaris and became a soldier-for-hire in various African countries.Congo crisis - During the Congo Crisis Mike Hoare organized and led two separate mercenary groups:1960¿1961. Major Mike Hoare's first mercenary action was in Katanga, a province trying to break away from the newly independent Congo. The unit was called "4 Commando." During this time he married Phyllis Simms, an airline stewardess.1964. Congolese Prime Minister Moïse Tshombe hired "Major" Mike Hoare to lead a military unit called 5 Commando ANC (later led by John Peters) made up of about 300 men most of whom were from South Africa. His second in command was a fellow ex-British Army officer, Commandant Alistair Wicks. The unit's mission was to fight a revolt known as the Simba Rebellion. Later Hoare and his mercenaries worked in concert with Belgian paratroopers, Cuban exile pilots, and CIA-hired mercenaries who attempted to save 1,600 civilians (mostly Europeans and missionaries) in Stanleyville from the Simba rebels in Operation Dragon Rouge. This operation saved many lives. Hoare was later promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the ANC and 5 Commando expanded into a two-battalion force. Hoare commanded 5 Commando from July 1964 to November 1965.