When Beverley Roos-Muller first began to explore writing about the Boer experience of the war, she read the tiny war diary of Michael, grandfather of her husband, Ampie Muller. It led her to the discovery of the other diaries and many more documents. Bullet in the Heart is a beautifully told account of the fellowship of four brothers in war, their capture and their eventual recovery.
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The definitive account of Commando: A Boer Journal of the Anglo-Boer War, published word-for-word as Reitz first wrote it in the English translation; edited and annotated by historian and Anglo-Boer War expert, Professor Fransjohan Pretorius.
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The definitive account of Commando: A Boer Journal of the Anglo-Boer War, published word-for-word as Reitz first wrote it in the English translation; edited and annotated by historian and Anglo-Boer War expert, Professor Fransjohan Pretorius.
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It is September 1987. The Angolan Army – with the support of Cuban troops and Soviet advisors – has built up a massive force on the Lomba River near Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola. Their goal? To capture Jamba, the headquarters of the rebel group Unita, supported by the South African Defence Force (SADF) in the so-called Border War. Thousands of soldiers died in the vicious fighting that is described in vivid detail in this book. Bridgland pieced together this account through scores of interviews with SADF men who were on the front line. This dramatic retelling takes the reader to the heart of the action.
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Die Brug vertel, in die stemme van ’n klein groepie van hierdie dienspligtiges, wat hulle daar op die slagveld aangetref het en van die SAW se hardkoppige aandrang dat hulle herhaaldelik na dieselfde doodsakker terugkeer.
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Die SAW en Cuito Cuanavale deur Leopold Scholts is ‘n kritiese ontleding wys hoe maklik propaganda en politiek in die pad van feite kan staan.
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Jan Smuts’s abilities as a general have been much denigrated by modern historians. David Brock Katz makes use of multiple archival sources and many of the official accounts of the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during the First World War.
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Gunship Ace is an action-packed account filled with hair-raising missions performed by Neall Ellis, one of South Africa’s best-known combat aviators. The author recounts these missions, some of which he accompanied Ellis on as a war correspondent.
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Joubert describes the horrors of war and talks openly about its impact on him, but also how he had to suppress his emotions to survive. He had several hair-raising experiences and was nearly shot down a few times.
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