On the Lomba, 1987 - The Diary of a 61 Mech Gunner (Special Order ONLY 2-4 Days) - Olive, J. C.

On the Lomba, 1987 J. C. Olive 80422579 BG was conscripted into the SADF in early 1986. Some 18 months later, after his initial years training at the Potchefstroom Artillery School, in August 1987, he found himself as a driver with Sierra Battery, 61 Mechanised Battalion Group on the Lomba River, in southern Angola. In four months of continuous combat, interspersed with periods of intense ennui, Olive kept a diary. A keen observer of the life and death around him, he brings an immediacyat times humorous, at times brutalto the SADFs largest operation of the Border War, Operation Moduler. A published military writer, a friend of the authors, Patrick Eriksson, recently read the diary and said he thought it was worth publishing as a first-hand account of the mindless boredom of army routine, as well as the terror of coming under fire, without it being just another war story.

Softcover. English. 30 Degress South. ISBN: 9781928359944. 220 pp including 50 black & images, 1 map. NEW. Book No: 2507369