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1996. Hard cover with dust cover; 253 pages. Very good condition. Details of former owner in front. Under 1 kg. SAS Secret War reveals how small teams of SAS men were sent to fight in Oman where Communist guerillas were waging a savage campain. Communist victory would have given them control of the Gulf, threatening Western oil supplies. But while the World's attention was dominated by Vietnam, the SAS spearheaded the most successful counter-insurgency operation of recent times. Fighting the enemy on their own terms, the SAS changed the course of the war. A small force of elite soldiers showed how Communist guerrillas could be defeated on their own ground.   

 THE INTERROGATOR'S WAR: INSIDE THE SECRET WAR AGAINST AL-QAEDA (2004) - CHRIS MACKEY & GREG MILLER   450 PAGES   THIS ITEM IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, ALL PAGES ARE PRESENT & SPINE IS PERFECT. CONTENT COVERS THE CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS INVOLVED POST-2001 IN U.S. OCCUPIED AFGHANISTAN AS,  THOUSANDS OF CAPTURED AL-QAEDA AND TALIBAN INSURGENTS WERE INTERNED IN DETENTION FACILITIES; AND INVESTIGATED FOR ANY VALUABLE COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE.   PLEASE SELECT SECOND SHIPPING OPTION AT R120, IF IN SOUTH AFRICA - AS BOOK IS QUITE HEAVY. FOREIGN BIDDERS TO PAY USING BOB BUCKS- SHIPPING TO BE QUOTED NO COLLECTIONS PAYMENT IN 7 DAYS OR AN SNC WILL BE FILED    

The Secret War 1939-1945 by Gerald Pawle A first White Lion Hard cover edition Published in 1972 Red cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, clean & bright. Postage within South africa will be R30-00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote  

The Secret War 1939-45 By Gerald Pawle **READING COPY** First Edition, Hard Cover, Published By The Companion Book Club 1958 Cover Boards Have Rubbing To The Edges, Piece Missing To Bottom Of Spine, Binding Tight & Strong. Browning & Foxing To Pages. Dust Jacket Incomplete, Wear & Tear To Edges, Piece Missing To Bottom Of Spine, Browning & Foxing. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R30.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote.

A Man Called Intrepid - The Secret War By: William Stevenson Packaging and Postage within South Africa R60.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation  

  HITLER’S SECRET WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA, 1939-1945 by Stanley E Hilton Softcover – 178x111 mm – Ballantine Books 1982 1 st Paperback edition 359 pages – index included – no photos V/Good cond. Tightly bound – age discoloration – back cover: t/right corner – insect damage? “German military espionage and Allied counterespionage in Brazil.”

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A look at South African military operations during the apartheid years. It deals with all the top secret raids by Special Forces into surrounding African states, the political dynamics which led to them and the turbulent history of the times. This account tells not only the story of South Africa's Special Forces, it has also been described as the most important and frank history of South Africa itself during the apartheid years. Not only does it deal with military operations but it also explains the political dynamics that prompted them. It is wide ranging and covers the first counter-insurgency operations in Namibia in 1966, a commando raid on Dar-es-Salaam, the Fox Street Siege, South Africa's intervention into Angola in 1975 and subsequent pull-out, the rise of insurgency in Mozambique, South Africa's re-entry into Angola, strikes against SWAPO bases in Zambia, the training and assistance to UNITA, the fight against ZANLA and ZIPRA in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the fall of Rhodesia, how the SAS and Selous Scouts were reformed as Recce units in South Africa, the selection and training of special forces, the raid against the ANC at Matola in Mozambique, South African assistance to RENAMO and Recce operations in Mozambique, Lesotho, Cabinda, Botswana and Zambia. It also deals in detail with the final days of apartheid in South Africa and explains how close the country was to a right-wing coup d'etat. Paperback 608 pages b/w and colour illustrations Published December 2002

A look at South African military operations during the apartheid years. It deals with all the top secret raids by Special Forces into surrounding African states, the political dynamics which led to them and the turbulent history of the times. This account tells not only the story of South Africa's Special Forces, it has also been described as the most important and frank history of South Africa itself during the apartheid years. Not only does it deal with military operations but it also explains the political dynamics that prompted them. It is wide ranging and covers the first counter-insurgency operations in Namibia in 1966, a commando raid on Dar-es-Salaam, the Fox Street Siege, South Africa's intervention into Angola in 1975 and subsequent pull-out, the rise of insurgency in Mozambique, South Africa's re-entry into Angola, strikes against SWAPO bases in Zambia, the training and assistance to UNITA, the fight against ZANLA and ZIPRA in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the fall of Rhodesia, how the SAS and Selous Scouts were reformed as Recce units in South Africa, the selection and training of special forces, the raid against the ANC at Matola in Mozambique, South African assistance to RENAMO and Recce operations in Mozambique, Lesotho, Cabinda, Botswana and Zambia. It also deals in detail with the final days of apartheid in South Africa and explains how close the country was to a right-wing coup d'etat.

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As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what U.S.-Soviet diplomats were otherwise spending in diplomacy. The socialist government of Angola and its army, FAPLA, fully stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out a massive resistance group, UNITA, secretly supplied by the U.S, in order to claim full sovereignty over the country. A giant FAPLA offensive so threatened to succeed in overcoming UNITA that apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted the Angolan government to call on their own foreign reinforcementsthe army of Communist Cubas. Thus began the epic battle of Cuito Cuanavale, largely unknown in the U.S., but which raged for three months in the entirely odd match-up of South African Boers vs. Castros armed forces, which for the first time in the Cold War proved what it could achieve. And it turned out the Cubans were very good. The South Africans were no slouches at warfare themselves, but had suffered under a boycott of weapons since 1977. The Cubans and Angolan troops, instead, had the latest Soviet weapons, easily delivered. But UNITA had its secret U.S. supply line and the South Africans knew how to fight, mainly at a disadvantage in air power for lack of spare parts. Meantime the Cubans overcame their logistic difficulties with an impressive airlift of troops over the Atlantic, while the Boers simply needed to drive next door. As a case study of ferocious fighting between East and Westalbeit proxies for the great powers on all sidesthis book unveils a remarkable episode of the end-game of the Cold War largely unknown to the public. The Angolans on both sides suffered heavily, but it was the apartheid South Africans versus Castros armed forces that provides utter fascination in one of historys rare match-ups. Paperback / 232 pages 54 b/w photos Published December 2013  

SAS Savage Wars of Peace - Anthony Kemp - 1994 - Paperback in good, clean and tight condition.  This work, the sequel to Anthony Kemp's definitive "The SAS at War", which dealt with the foundation of the Regiment by David Stirling and its role up to 1945, takes the story forward to the storming of the Iranian Embassy, the attack on the IRA in Gibraltar, and the under-cover Gulf War. Following the Second World War, the SAS became essentially a component of the British Army and took part in colonial campaigns, including those in Malaya, Borneo, South Arabia and Oman. Since 1969, though, elements of the Regiment have been stationed more or less permanently in an under-cover role in Northern Ireland. It was at about that time too that the Regiment became involved in counter terrorist activities elsewhere, including England itself. Since then a cloak of secrecy has descended over all SAS activities, including those in the Falklands and the Gulf War. Intense speculation has been the inevitable result. This book, based on interviews and on more co-operation than the SAS has granted any other writer, tells us the maximum compatible with security of a regiment which has become the most feared and respected of special forces anywhere in the world.

 Plaque from SAS WINGFIELD 1967 to Commander Nortier who later became a Rear Admiral in the SA Navy. SAS Wingfield  is a  South African Navy  base, on the site of the World War II  Wingfield Aerodrome  in  Cape Town Some scuff damage to green paint. LOCAL BUYER PAYS R100 POSTNET OVERSEAS BIDDER SEE POSTAGE RATES TABLE FOR SHIPPING OPTIONS