The Buffalo Soldiers - Col Jan Breytenbach - THE STORY OF SOUTH AFRICA’S 32 BATTALION 1975-1993

THE STORY OF SOUTH AFRICAS 32-BATTALION 1975-1993

This is a soldiers story about South African soldier in southern Angola and Namibia and the enemies they fought. It tells of insurgency and counter insurgency, guerilla warfare and conventional warfare. It tells of a conflict which the world saw as unjust, in which South Africa was perceived as the aggressor. But the black and white soldiers who fought in it saw it as an extension of the Cold War, for while it was Cold on the frontiers in Europe it was a very Hot war in Angola. They consistently outfought FAPLA, SWAPO and the Cubans throughout the war years. It created a problem to which neither they nor their Soviet and East German mentors ever found a solution.

After the 1989 Namibian settlement the unit was withdrawn to South Africa. Despite it having borne the brunt of South Africas war in Angola with the blood of its troops, the National Party government disgracefully ordered its arbitrary disbandment in March 1993 and the unit ceased to exist.

Because of the secrecy surrounding it, 32 Battalion became not only one of the finest fighting units in the South African Army, it also became the most controversial.

softcover - excellent condition, 360 pages