Jonathan Ball: A Tribute
Jonathan Ball, the founder of Jonathan Ball Publishers, died on 3 April 2021 after a short illness. This collection of essays, commissioned in tribute to him, is edited by Michele Magwood.
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Robert Sobukwe: How Can Man Die Better
This book is the story of a South African hero – Robert Sobukwe – the lonely prisoner on Robben Island. It is also the story of the friendship between Robert Sobukwe and Benjamin Pogrund whose joint experiences and debates chart the course of a tyrannous regime and the growth of black resistance.
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Field Guide to Birds of Greater Southern Africa
The definitive field guide to the birds of the Greater Southern African region. This spectacular field guide includes all resident, breeding and migrant species found in Greater Southern Africa.
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Churchill & Smuts
The remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. Richard Steyn, author of Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness, examines this close friendship through two world wars and the intervening years, drawing on a maze of archival and secondary sources including letters, telegrams and the voluminous books written about both men.
Also available in Afrikaans: Churchill en Smuts – Die Vriendskap
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In Our Words
Stories from nurses who were working on the front line in the time of Covid-19 have been collected in this book by leaders in nursing science and education studies who put out a call on social media with this question: ‘What was/is nursing in South Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic like for you?’
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First People
In First People archaeologist Andrew Smith, who has excavated at some of the richest prehistoric heritage sites across Africa and has a career spanning 50 years, examines what we know about southern Africa’s early people, drawing on evidence from archaeological sites, rock art, the observations of colonial-era travellers, linguistics, study of the human genome, and the latest academic research.
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The Boer War in Colour
Infused with colour, scenes from the Anglo-Boer War suddenly come to life in this striking collection of colourised photos from one of the biggest conflicts on South African soil.
Also available in Afrikaans: Die Anglo-Boereoorlog in Kleur
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Hitler’s Spies
Hitler’s Spies presents an unrivalled account of German intelligence networks that operated in wartime South Africa. It also details the hunt in post war Europe for witnesses to help the government bring charges of high treason against key Ossewabrandwag members.
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Botha, Smuts and the First World War
Botha, Jan Smuts and the First World War by Antonio Garcia and Ian van der Waag is a first-of-a-kind volume investigates the wartime roles of these two legendary yet divisive historical figures.
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