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Description
A powerful and vivid compilation of first-hand accounts from the men who lived it.
Troepie: From Call-up to Camps by Cameron Blake is a fascinating, essential read for anyone interested in South African military history, the Border War, or the realities of the conscription era.
This 307-page softcover volume brings together the personal recollections, struggles, and humour of more than 40 former South African Defence Force (SADF) National Servicemen. Rather than focusing purely on high-level strategy, this book explores the raw, everyday life of the ordinary "troepie".
The chapters are masterfully structured to follow the exact chronological sequence of a National Serviceman's military journey:
The Beginning: Klaaring In & Basic Training (Orientation, Keuring, and the Bush Phase)
The Deployments: General Service, The Border, and Into Angola
Internal Conflict: Township Patrols and the State of Emergency
The Aftermath: Uitklaar, Camps, and life thereafter.
Includes Valuable Appendices:
The Development of National Service
National Service Medals
Basic Training Manual excerpts
A comprehensive Glossary of SADF military terminology and a Translation of Afrikaans Dialogue.
Product Details
Author: Cameron Blake
Publisher: Zebra Press (An imprint of Random House Struik)
Year Published: 2009 (First Edition)
Format: Softcover / Paperback
Pages: 307 pages (including bibliography)
ISBN: 978-1-77022-051-5
Condition Report
Second hand condition. Binding remains tight and intact. Pages are clean with no loose leaves or heavy annotations. Light shelf wear to the cover corners as expected with age. Please refer to the provided images for a closer look at the exact item condition.
However the first page does have a rubber stamp mark with the name R.M. Wilson other than that there are scribble markings or other damage to all the pages.
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