Free Postage Within SA for Orders Over R900!
Softcover.
First edition, 2008.
Tafelberg.
151 pages.
For an entire generation of white South African men, this was code for the undeclared war in Angola and South West Africa (now Namibia) that began with a few skirmishes in the late 1960s and ended, twenty years later, with the most intense and extended conventional battles ever fought in sub-Saharan Africa.
Of the more than 600,000 men called up by the South African Defence Force between 1968 and 1990, over half served in the ‘operational area’. Much of what they did remained secret, the full story untold. With On the Border, David Williams – himself a conscript and member of the Citizen Force for ten years – begins to remedy this. He captures the complexities of an era which is recalled with bitterness or nostalgia, often both, but which few who lived through can ever forget. Packed with new information based on research and interviews, and with first person accounts enlivening the narrative, this book provides much needed context and analysis to a war that still stirs up emotions.
About the author (2008): DAVID WILLIAMS, Deputy Editor of the Johannesburg Financial Mail and Research Associate at the South African Institute of International Affairs, is an expert on the El Alamein battles and the desert campaigns. An experienced radio and TV broadcaster, he covered military affairs for the Financial Mail, notably during South Africa's transition in 1990'1995. He has published books on sport, Great Games (Penguin, 1998) and Toughest of Them All with Grant Harding (Penguin, 2001) and on history, Seven Battles that Shaped South Africa (Tafelberg, 2005). He was educated at King Edward VII School and at the University of Witwatersrand.
Mild wear & creasing to covers, some foxing, but otherwise internally clean, well bound and in very good condition overall.
Additional photos on request. Please ask any questions before placing your order.
Africana / South Africa / History / War / Afrikaans / Angola / Fapla / Operation Savannah / PW Botha / Swapo / SADF
Grading Scale:
Many more books on sale, click here to browse!
