The Plunderers - Jan Breytenbach (first edition 2001)

Soft cover book in a neat condition!

Colonel J.D. Breytenbach DVR, SD, SM, MMM, joined the South African Army (Union Defence Force) in 1950. He was commissioned three years later and led a varied and somewhat legendary career in the military. He also served as nature conservationist in Western Caprivi by the SWA Department of Conservation. It was during this period that Breytenbach became aware of the large-scale ivory and rhino horn smuggling via clandestine military intelligence supply line to UNITA. He retired to Sedgefield with the rank of colonel, to write books. He was decorated four times for bravery and leadership in action. This is his only novel. The work is however strongly based on fact.

"The Plunderers tells of the despair of the Bushmen, ignored by political leaders, and the army they had served for so long. Of the moral cowardice and greed of top politicians and generals who indiscriminately slaughtered game and smuggled contraband to line their own pockets in the name of the 'war effort'. But it also tells of the bravery of one game ranger and his small band of Bushmen who had the courage to care.”