SCARCE! `THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS` BY COL JAN BREYTENBACH, HARDCOVER 1ST EDITION, 2002 EXCELLENT COND.

SCARCE! "THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS" BY COL JAN BREYTENBACH, FIRST EDITION, 2002, HARDCOVER, COMPLETE INTACT DUSTJACKET, NO NAMES, INSCRIPTIONS ETC, EXCELLENT CONDITION 

Bound in the original cloth and with coloured pictorial dust-wrapper; eleven preliminary pages + 360 pages of text, including index; with 72 colour and black and white illustrations & 4 maps.  "The Buffalo Soldiers" is the story of South Africa's 32-Battalion (1975-1993), forged in battle from black guerilla irregulars and white South African officers and NCO's during the South African military intervention in Angola in 1975, it was destined to become the most elite infantry unit in the South African Army's order of battle. Colonel Breytenbach, the founder and first commander of the unit, is an internationally recognised and well respected soldier.