CROSS OF HONOUR. Ian Uys

Hardcover with dustcover, 196 pages. Very good condition: tightly bound, neat and clean.

The Honoris Crux was South Africa's premier gallantry award during the Border War. Scores of accounts of valour, plus particulars of the battles and photographs of the recipients abound. Stories told of a helicopter pilot who switched his lights on to attract fire away from his friends, then later landed in an enemy camp to rescue his downed comrades, and of  a frogmen who blew the Cuito Bridge then fought the enemy and crocodiles while escaping.