Soldiers

Soldiers in the Shadows: Unknown Warriors who Changed the Course of History   Author: William Weir Publisher: Bounty Books, London Edition: First Edition, 2006 Condition: Excellent. Really clean with tight binding. Binding: Hardcover with dustcover Pages: 281 Numerous black & white photographs.   Additional Information   Soldiers in the Shadows: Unknown Warriors who Changed the Course of History resurrects the actions of 10 soldiers who for one reason or another, are all but forgotten. The book contends that these controversial military leaders, in various ways over the course of a century, played a great part in eliminating the old-world order of mother countries and colonies, of the free and the enslaved. The book pulls these soldiers out of the shadows and shines a spotlight on the fascinating military stories surrounding them.   Soldiers in the Shadows: Unknown Warriors who Changed the Course of History is the result of meticulous research and provides an unconventional glimpse of history spanning from the years leading up to the American Civil War to the Vietnam War. Focusing also on Strategies, tactics, famous contemporaries and the shape of the changing world. The book shows how each of these unknown warriors was brave, resourceful and often a brilliant soldier.   Please note that we refer the right to close our auctions at any time Please refer to all images for condition, as this form an integral part of the description Payment to be processed within 2 days of auction closing Item will be posted on the first Saturday following receipt of payment. We are not responsible for damages to or loss of items once posted The item is second hand and sold as such with no warranty or guarantee implied, expressed or given. Regretfully, no buyers from outside the borders of South Africa

Soldiers Blue and Gray  By: James I Robertson, Jr.  ***Signed Copy*** A first edition hardcover published by University of South Carolina in 1988 Blue cover boards with silver writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, SIGNED by the author with a gift inscription on the title page, dustjacket is complete as new behind plastic cover Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation Abe #  

  Soldiers - A History of men in Battle by John Keegan and Richard Holmes Published 1987 Hardcover book in very good condition. The dust jacket show wear and tear. Previous owners name on first page. The book are undamaged and clean. 288 pages   Please see the photo's as part of the description   International bidders  are welcome. (please enquire about postage) Postage and packaging: R62..00 SA post office. Courier at R120. (Preferred) Pickup can also be arranged                 Please see our other medallion, pins and coins, books ext.  

Soldiers of Misfortune By: James D. Sanders, Mark A. Sauter and R. Cort Kirkwood A first edition hardcover published by National Press in 1992 Black cover boards with red spine with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete clean & bright Packaging and Postage within South Africa R60.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation

  Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle Author: John Keegan & Richard Holmes with a Foreword by Frederick Forsyth Publisher: Sphere Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom Edition: First Edition 1985 Condition: Good – Slight wear and tear to dust jacket, other wise clean copy with tight binding    Binding: Hardcover Pages: 288. Several colour, black & white photographs   Additional Information   The book of the major BBC TV Series Please note that we refer the right to close our auctions at any time Please refer to all images for condition, as this form an integral part of the description Payment to be processed within 2 days of auction closing Item will be posted on the first Saturday following receipt of payment. We are not responsible for damages to or loss of items once posted The item is second hand and sold as such with no warranty or guarantee implied, expressed or given. Bidders to request detail of shipping options and costs International bidders to kindly request details of shipping costs

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1985. Hard cover with dust cover. 288 pages. Very good condition. Minor rust spots in front and back. Parcel over 1 kg. Celebrated military historian, John Keegan, and co-author, Richard Holmes, chart the changes in the conduct of warfare through history with an instructive combination of analysis and illustration. In the process they reveal that what has not changed is that an army ultimately has to depend on the courage and determination of its fighting men. With an introduction by Frederick Forsyth.      

Time-Life Books, Alexandria, 1981. Hardcover. 4to. Blue blind-embossed paper over boards with tipped in color plate. 176 pp. Numerous illustrations (some color), pictorial front end paper. Fine. Second printing, tight and clean and handsome. Part of Time-Life's "Epic of Flight" series.

The Twentieth Century Mercenary by Peter Macdonald. Large format hardcover with dust jacket. 190 pages with index. Illustrated throughout. Has excellent chapters on the Congo, Angolan and Rhodesian conflicts. Very good condition. Tracked postage is R60.00.

 PAPERBACK IN GOOD CONDITION - FRONT COVER HAS A PUNCH HOLE. BERKLEY 1991, 248 PAGES                                                   HOLOCAUST, NAZI GERMANY 

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Lot of 8 South African soldiers magazines Public service strike: soldiers serving the nation vol.14 no.7  Artillery open day vol.14 no.9 Our deployed soldiers...creating peace in Africa vol.14 no.12 Mission and combat readiness training vol.16 no.15 SANDF fittest soldier championships vol.16 no.4 Exercise Golfinho vol.16 no.10 SA Air force day parade vol.17 no.3    

This is a soldier's story about South African soldiers in southern Angola and Namibia and the enemies they fought. It tells of insurgency and counter-insurgency, guerrilla warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare, almost conventional warfare and conventional warfare. It tells of a conflict which the world saw as unpopular and unjust, in which South Africa was perceived as the aggressor. The South African soldiers who fought in it, however, saw it as a conflict fought to stop what is now Namibia falling into the hands of the Soviet and Cuban-backed SWAPO black nationalist political organisation. After Namibia South Africa would be next. They saw the whole conflict as an extension of the Cold War, but while it was on the frontiers in Europe, in Angola they were fighting a very hot war in Angola. Eventually, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the war was resolved by the democratic solution of UN supervised free and fair elections in Namibia. Since then, regrettably, there has been interference by the ruling party with the democratic constitution put in place in Namibia which has eroded much of that hard won democracy. 32 Battalion, of which Colonel Jan Breytenbach was the founding commander, became the most controversial unit in the South African Army because of the secrecy surrounding it. Its story is virtually the story of the Angolan/Namibian war, because its involvement in it was greater than any other South African unit. The regiment primarily consisted of black troops and NCOs originating from virtually every tribe in Angola. They were led by white South African officers and NCOs. Neither apartheid nor any form of racial discrimination was ever practiced in the unit. There was always a sprinkling of whites originating from countries like Great Britain, the old Rhodesia, Portugal and the USA amongst its leadership cadre, although in the latter stages of its existence this shrank to only a few. Such a presence undoubtedly led to stories circulating that the unit was a led by foreign white mercenaries. While it was true that the black Angolan element could have fallen with the mercenary definition, the whites involved were attested soldiers in the South African Army. In any case, they formed a minority and the vast majority of white officers and NCOs were born South Africans. The unit's aggressiveness and the successes it achieved in the field of battle, often against incredible odds, lay in its spirit and its  espirit de corps. In this respect and in many other ways it compared favourably with the French Foreign Legion. Its story parallels with and reminds one of the British and British Commonwealth Chindits of World War-2, operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma in large formations, out-guerrillaing those who only three years earlier had been regarded in awe as the unbeatable jungle warfare experts. Likewise, 32-Battalion consistently outfought both FAPLA, SWAPO and the Cubans in the Angola bush throughout the war years. It created a problem to which neither they nor their Soviet and East German mentors ever found a solution to. After the 1989 Namibian settlement the unit was with withdrawn to South Africa where they were deployed to effectively deal with MK infiltrations into the north of South Africa. From there, after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, they were redeployed to deal with political troubles, principally between armed ANC self defense units and armed units of the IFP. The intrusion of black foreigners into the townships who were prepared to deal with troubles robustly and without fear or favour, did not suit either the ANC or the IFP, as they could not be subverted to support local causes because they held no local tribal allegiances. In the end it seems they became something of a bargaining chip at the CODESA negotiations, designed to find a new political dispensation for South Africa. Despite it having borne the brunt of South Africa' war in Angola with the blood of its troops, the National Party Government disgracefully ordered its arbitrary disbandment in March 1993 and the unit ceased to exist. Paperback, 360 pages with photos & maps  

BOER WAR GREETING CARD MADE FROM SOLDIERS SHIRT THIS IS A SOLDIERS GREETING CARD SENT TO HIS MOTHER DURING THE BOER WAR. THE ITEM IS FROM A PIECE OF THE SOLDIERS KAHKI SHIRT. IT READS AS FOLLOWS, 99-00   01-02, BOER WAR SOUTH AFRICA, TO MY DEAR MOTHER, PEACE WITH HONOUR, BOER AND BRITONS HAND SHAKING WITH TRANSVAAL AND BRITISH FLAG. A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY. THE FRAME MEASURES 26CM X 45CM AND THE PIECE OF SHIRT IS 22CM X 30CM. A BEAUTIFUL ITEM IN ANY COLLECTION OR IN A BAR OR STUDY. VERY RARE. THE FRAME IS ALSO ORIGINAL. THANK YOU FOR LOOKING, HAPPY BIDDING.        

BOER WAR SOLDIERS GREETING CARD PRETORIA 1899-1902  A BOER WAR SOLDIERS GREETING CARD AND MADE FROM A PIECE OF SOLDIERS SHIRT AND SENT FROM PRETORIA. THE CARD READS, "TO A FRIEND" "ON A PIECE OF KARKI FROM A OLD COAT I HAVE WORN" "DISCARDED BECAUSE  IT WAS ALL TATTERED" "AND TORN. TIS NOT A GOLD EDGED OR HIGHLY PRICED CARD" "STILL IT CONVEYS MY BEST WISHES AND KINDEST REGARDS FROM" "W. A. SPEAK PRETORIA SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1900" A VERY INTERESTING ITEM FROM THE BOER WAR OF MEMORABILIA. THERE ARE NO TEARS CONDITION AS IMAGE. THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AND PLEASE LOOK AT SELLERS OTHER ITEMS FOR SALE     

Subtitle: Their Alpha and Omega Author: Ian S Uys Edition: First Edition ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good. The DJ is bright and unfaded with light wear to edges. Book itself has a small mark on the fore-edge and slight shelf wear, else a clean, very presentable copy. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 288 Dimensions: 24.7 x 17 x 2 cm +++ by Ian S Uys +++ The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous population to take up arms on South Africa's behalf, they were among the last to lay them down. The border's oldest and most bush-wise people, they became feared as relentless trackers and dedicated soldiers. During Operation Savannah they were deployed in a conventional role as Battle-Group Alpha, part of Task Force Zulu, and advanced approximately kilometers in a month. Afterwards some of the Bushmen were trained as parachutists and served as Recces behind enemy lines. Others were attached to various units as trackers and guides. Their loyalty and bravery was recognised in the award of Honoris Crux decorations to members and former members of this elite corps. Controversy followed the battalion to South Africa after the war. Persecuted for centuries, the Bushmen have displayed an uncanny ability to survive and have adapted remarkably well to the modern world.   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.

 VINTAGE HARD PAPER PICTURE OF 3 SOLDIERS... BOER WAR OR WW1 ??? PLEASE NO BIDDERS OUTSIDE RSA I DO NOT SEND OVERSEAS AND I DO NOT HAVE PAYPAL PAYMENT STRICTLY WITHIN 48 HOURS OF COMPLETION OF AUCTION This picture is very old and is on thick paper The three soldiers looks to be having the same grenade type badges. Picture is taken by H. SIMPKINS EAST LONDON The photographers details is both on the front and rear. Picture is in good condition for its age with old tape marks on the rear edges Please judge for yourself.

When This Bloody War Is Over: Soldiers' Songs from the First World War by Max Arthur (Contributor), Lyn Macdonald (Introduction) 2001  - 130 pages Hard Cover with Dust Jacket in Good Condition The songs in this book were the ones soldiers actually sang - on the march, in the dug-outs and trenches, amidst the carnage of the battlefield. Each song is introduced by Max Arthur, giving its historical background.

IAN UYS "BUSHMEN SOLDIERS" FIRST EDITION 1993 IN MINT CONDITION ACCORDING TO IAN UYS, THE BUSHMAN SOLDIERS WERE THE MOST OUTSTANDING ALL-ROUND FIGHTERS OF THE BUSH WAR. THIS IS THE STORY OF AFRICA'S GURKHAS. HARDCOVER WITH DUSTWRAPPER, IN GOOD CONDITION, VERY LITTLE WEAR AND TEAR. THE VERY BEGINNING OF BROWNING ON THE EDGES. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. 1993, FORTRESS PUBLISHERS 288 PAGES WITH AMPLE PHOTOGRAPHS.