32 Battalion - The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit by Nortje, Piet

32 Battalion - The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit

Nortje, Piet

Zebra Press : Cape town (2009). ISBN : 9781868729142. Reprint, seventh printing. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers with flaps. Soft Cover. Xviii + 315 pp. Some colour illustrations. Very Good in No Dust-jacket as issued. Spinal lean. Edges of the wrappers rubbed. Wrappers rubbed. Label of previous book-seller to the rear wrapper.

“32 Battalion is the gripping inside story of South Africa's most controversial fighting unit of the 1970s and 1980s. Originally formed in order to lend support to the FNLA and UNITA in the Angolan war, 32 Battalion quickly gained the reputation of being an unconventional, secretive, yet highly effective group. Written by a man who was intimately involved with the unit and served as its Regimental Sergeant Major for two years, the title aims to explode the myths surrounding the legendary 32 and set the record straight. It records how and why 32 Battalion was formed, explores its unique identity forged by the men who fought in it, details the many operations in which they participated, and concludes with its eventual disbandment at the dawn of a new South Africa. What they did, and how they did it, would earn this controversial group official recognition as the best fighting unit in the South African Army since World War II.

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