Eden's Exiles by Jan Breytenbach, First Edition

"EDEN'S EXILES" BY JAN BREYTENBACH, FIRST EDITION, 1997, HARDCOVER, COMPLETE INTACT DUST JACKET, 259 PAGES, VERY GOOD CONDITION, NO NAMES, INSCRIPTIONS ETC.

Author Jan Breytenbach, a legend in military circles, and the founder of South African Special Forces the Recces describes how he discovered that Military Intelligence was involved in illegal wildlife trade with Jonas Savimbi. To his horror and astonishment, senior officers were also using the MI created ivory-smuggling routes for their own corrupt ends. A must-read on a little known topic of the South African Border War, Angolan Civil War, and the de facto genocide of southern Africa's Big Five, particularly the elephant.This book tells the story of the struggle between war and conservation, in the Caprivi strip. Breytenbach, a senior military officer, relates the story of rhino horn poaching and ivory hunting and the collusion between the SANDF and Unita movement to smuggle them through South Africa to the Far East. This book is about Breytenbach's futile struggle against these forces until he was recalled to Pretoria, thus himself becoming one of Eden's exiles.