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  Rustenburg at War - Lionel Wulfsohn 1992, second edition. Hard cover. 330 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg. A comprehensive account of this Northwest town in its battles with the British Empire.  

      Rustenburg at War - Lionel Wulfsohn 1992, second edition. Hard cover. 330 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg. A comprehensive account of this Northwest town in its battles with the British Empire.  

 Evans Brothers Limited, 1956 1st edition. Hard cover in good condition, pages yellowing, occasional foxing, price in pen on rear endpaper. 224 pp.  Good dust-jacket, price-clipped, rubbed with some edge-chipping.     "Newspaperman and ex-Squardron Leader Gerald Bowman has based this book on the immensely popular series of 15 television films made by the BBC, for which Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert was Technical Adviser. Here, told compactly, is the story of the immense air power developed by the Allies from puny beginnings to the atom bomb. The final section, specially rewritten for this edition, focuses on the future, outlining the part that air power is likely to play in world affairs in view of the nuclear bomb, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, etc."

The Great Sea War the story of naval action in World War II 1960 1st Ed 468pp Hardcover, jacket good with shelfwear, lightly edgebumped and with rubbing, small closed tears. Some light age toning and foxing to end flysheets, contents very good, clean and tightly bound.

  HarperCollins Publishers. Hardback. Book Condition: Very good, 2009, 1st edition. 388 pp. Alamein, Iain Gale, The superb novelist of men at war moves into the twentieth century and World War Two, telling the story of the eleven days in the sands of North Africa that would change history forever. There are some battles that change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its allies were in real difficulties: Germany and its Axis partners seemed to be triumphant everywhere - in Europe, in Russia, in the Atlantic and were now poised to take the Suez Canal. It was in North Africa that the stand was made, that the tide of World War Two began to turn. It was a battle of strong characters: the famous battle commander Rommel and the relatively untested new British commander, Montgomery, leading men who fought through an extraordinary eleven day battle, in an unforgiving terrain, amid the swirling sandstorms and the desert winds. Iain Gale, author of the outstanding historical novel Four Days in June on the battle of Waterloo, tells the dramatic story through seven characters, almost all based on real people. Drawn from both sides of the conflict, they include a major from a Scottish brigade, the young lieutenant in the thick of the tank battle, the Australian sergeant with the infantry, the tank commander of the Panzer Division and the charismatic Italian commander of a parachute battalion. Through them and others we see the flow of battle, the strategies, the individual actions and skirmishes, the fear, the determination, the extraordinary courage on both sides.

Paperback. English. Sarum. 1977. ISBN: 797402349. 159 pp with bw illustrations. In fair condition. Slightly edgeworn softcover, otherwise good condition. Scarce regimental history of the 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Light Infantry and the role they played in the Bush War.

  This is a fascinating book that covers the military career of General Jannie Geldenhuys, including his role in military operations against SWAPO, MAPLA and the Cubans during the "Border War" in Angola. This book reveals how Castro tried to dress up political, economic and military failures in Angola as glorious triumphs. He provides actual numbers and details of the myth of Cuito Cuanavales and how the Marxist forces were defeated there. The author takes you through the dynamics and strategies that defeated the Communist forces trying to establish a totalitarian regime in Angola and Namibia. The South Africans, with inferior forces, were able to achieve almost every military objective, producing some ingenious strategies and causing a high rate of casualties to a numerically superior enemy. They didn't lose the military battles but lost the political one. Cuito Cuanavales was the last part of a series of battles that started as the South Africans, like many times before, stopped and defeated the last big Cuban/Fapla/Russians offensive against UNITA main bases, obliterating the FAPLA's offensive of 1987. The South Africans had the MAPLA and their Cubans advisers on the run. They were picking them apart at will, but they stopped because of a series of events, like the UNITA false alarm about the possibility of incoming Cuban MIGs and the rotation of the South African troops after the end of their military service cycle, etc. This gave the retreating MAPLA enough time to cross the river and dig in to fight for their lives, and stop the South Africans from annihilating them. All the MAPLA/Cubans did at Cuito was create an immense mine zone and defend it, to stop the South Africans from destroying the remaining troops. When one looks back and counts the number of casualties the South Africans inflicted on them before they crossed the river, you can see that the MAPLA/CUBANS suffered major casualties vs. the light number of casualties suffered by the South Africans. Then one can ask: who won the battle when one side lost thousands of soldiers just before they dug in? Cuito Cuanavales wasn't a typical clear cut defeat like the South Africans were used to inflicting on the FAPLA/Cubans because they didn't finish them, but it wasn't a Cuban victory like Castro put it. This gave Castro the opportunity to claim a "victory" that wasn't there via his propaganda machine and use it to leave Angola for good without being seen by those that weren't in the battle field as a defeated army. For the Marxist-Communist regimes, perceptions are more important than facts and no matter what the Cuban propaganda says, the facts are that FLAPA-Cubans suffered many humiliating losses at the hands of the numerically outnumbered South African army.   Hardcover:  328 pages Publisher:  Jonathan Ball; 1st Edition edition (1995) Language:  English

The Longest Winter, By Alex Kershaw, Published by Michael Joseph 2005, 1st British edition,  illustrated with photos, dust wrapper, 353 pages, very good condition.

Hardcover. English. Jonathan Ball. 1994 1st ed. ISBN: 1868420205. 328 pp with bw illustrations and maps as eps. Very good condition with good dw. The inside story of the war that raged in the closing days of the apartheid regime - in Namibia, Angola and Mozambique. The author was the SADF Chief of Staff at the time, a professional soldier of the highest calibre, who played a major role in enabling South Afruica to avoid disaster in unwinnable wars. Book No: 28636/2501058

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.

    Allan Wingate, London, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An almost unbelievable and extremely exciting tale of a criminal/double agent during World War II. Some offset shading to endpapers and tanning of pages but firm and clean. DJ.

This is the story of South African soldiers during the 1916 Somme offensive, which took place between the Allied forces and the Germans along the Somme River in France and was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the First World War, resulting in over a million deaths in six months. In July 1916, the men of the 1st South African Infantry Brigade were involved in recapturing the village of Lingueval and clearing Delville Wood of enemy soldiers, but they suffered extreme casualties. After six days of fighting, of the Brigade's 3433 soldiers, only 750 were left standing. The rest were dead or wounded. This book tells the stories of the men of the Brigade via their letters, diaries, and interviews that the author conducted with survivors many years ago. Not much has been written about South Africans during World War I. Surprisingly, it is a relatively untapped period of military history. This fascinating new book covers the iconic battle of Delville Wood, the most famous event involving South Africans during the war. Paperback, 280 pages Published August 2014

 2005 Soft cover Very Good / New  condition 1st Edition 86 pages A very personal account of a truly extraordinary, even unique story from the Shoah. The island of Zakynthos defied, through its Metropolitan Chrysostomos and its Mayor (Lucas Karrer), the orders of the Nazi occupation forces to provide a list of all Jewish inhabitants of the island. Instead, Father John's grandparents, together with the populace of the beauteous island, hid the Jews in their villages. Not a single Jewish life was lost to the Shoah. This small book was published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War 2 and is a celebration of the Zakynthians during the War.  

  Many theories have been mooted to explain the Roswell incident, most of which involve flying saucers and little green men from Mars. What has never been considered, though, is the odd coincidence that the high-speed, high-flying spherical object which crashed on Roswell bears an uncanny resemblance to some of the extraordinarily futuristic aircraft which were blueprinted in top-secert conditions by Nazi scientists during the Second World War. Many of these blueprints - and the scientists responsible for them - mysteriously 'disappeared' into Allied hands post-1945 as a result of plans like the American 'Operation Paperclip', which initially strove merely to find out about V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets. BLUE FIRE tells an extraordinary story of cover-ups and conspiracies, and it gives a fascinating alternative version of world history since 1945.   Gary Hyland owns a successful company that produces original sculptures. He has a long-held fascination for the Nazis' development of new technologies during the Second World War.   Headline Book Publishing Binding:   Hardcover Book Condition: As New Edition:   1st Ed.

 Uncorrected proof, some maps and diagrams may be missing.  Coronet, UK, 2012. Card Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Soft Cover Edition. The story of one of the most remarkable heroes of the Second World War, a soldier of superb athleticism and almost superhuman instincts. To the men with whom he fought should to shoulder he was Saint Geoff, to his critics he was as ruthless in his pursuit of women as in his pursuit of the enemy. 370 pp, index missing.