As Chief of the South African Defence Force from 1985 to 1990 Geldenhuys brought his experience to bear on the South African Border War, and was part of the negotiating team which brought an end to the conflict in 1989. In this completely revised and updated edition of his 1993 account, Geldenhuys reflects on a life defined as much by a military career spanning more than four decades as it was by politics and indeed the need for peace on the African sub-continent. 288pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

The author is a colonel who founded the one of the most controversial infantry units in South Africa's military. He tells the story of warring in Southern Angola and Namibia, insurgency and counter insurgency and the extension of the Cold War to Southern Africa. Illustrated with colour photographs. Index, 360pp, SOUTH AFRICA. GALAGO BOOKS.

For almost fifteen year South Africa was involved in a civil war in Angola, the so-called Bush War, on behalf of the UNITA faction. The climax of this portrayed conflict was the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, the largest military engagement on African soil since the Second World War. Here South African forces came to blows with Angolan FAPLA troops and their Cuban allies in a battle whose outcome is still hotly debated. Thousands of South African conscripts took part in the Bush War and their stories are beginning to be told. What us much less known is the view from the other side. This book provides, for the first time in English, personal accounts of the conflict, leading up to Cuito Cuanavale, as told by Soviet advisers to the Angolan army. Their experience of the war and their views and assessment of their South African enemies as well as their Cuban and Angolan allies will surprise and fascinate South African readers and at the same time offer new insights into the conflict. B/w photos, 200pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA.

This work covers all operations of the Border War in which the South African gunners took part, starting in early 1975 when a young second lieutenant was seconded to train UNITA troops in Angola on US 4.2-inch mortars-through Operation Savannah, the first operation, to the last rounds that were fired in June 1988 against the Cuban 80th Division in southern Angola. 200 b/w & col illus, 352pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

Chronicles the evolution of the SAAF in the 'Border War' that raged in Angola and Namibia from 1966 to 1989, covering all the major South African Defence Force (SADF) operations from Omgulumbashe to the April Fool's Day war in 1989. Dick Lord, who writes in a from the cockpit style, has drawn on his own first-hand operational reports and diaries, incorporating anecdotes from dozens of aviators from a wide variety of squadrons - Buccaneers, Canberras, Mirages, Bosboks, C-160s and130s and helicopters. Index, apps, gloss, maps, b/w photos, 528pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

Traces an extraordinary career through nearly four decades of military aviation. Dick Lord tells a tale of military flying at its very best. He covers in amusing detail, the life of a carrier pilot in both the Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm and the United States Navy. His unusual career then led to combat in Southern African as a Mirage F1 Squadron commander. He later rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the South African Air Force. 81 photos, 348pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

A well researched history of flight in Southern Africa documenting early attempts with gliders and balloons up to commercial and military flights in the mid twentieth century. Illustrated with several hundred b/w photographs and images. Maps, apps, bib, 362pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL, 1868421686

Autobiography by the former head of the South African Defence Forces during the last days of Apartheid. Index, bib, notes, apps, b/w photos, maps, 509pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.

Account of Granger Korff's two years service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African counter-insurgency operations in Namibia and Angola. Col & b/w photos, 376pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

A study for both the light aircraft enthusiast and the reader who wants to know the real story behind 35 light aircraft accidents in South Africa. Gloss, b/w photos, 112pp, SOUTH AFRICA. /NEW AFRICA BOOKS.

Set against the southern African canvas of war and upheaval is the story of the famous San soldiers who fought first for the Portuguese in Angola, then for South Africa from bases in northern Namibia. When South Africa withdrew to make way for Namibian independence, many of these soldiers and their dependents came to South Africa where, after 13 years in tents, they moved into small houses on the outskirts of Kimberley. B/w plates, 229pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

Springbok was a term used to describe the 200 000 white South African men who volunteered to serve during the Second World War. Neil Roos provides a fresh approach in considering comradeship and social justice ethnographically, as a way of focusing on ordinary Springboks' expectations and experiences during and after the war. BNS, 180pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

The South African Defence Force's 44 Parachute Brigade was formed in 1978, drawing into the ranks came professional veterans from the UK, USA, Australasia, Rhodesia and elsewhere, from such Special Forces units as the SAS, Selous Scouts and the RLI. This is a collection of stories about the founding and deployment of a unit of 'Foreign Legionnaires', from different parts of the world who became welded together into a remarkable combat unit, unsurpassed by any other South African Defence Force unit in their positive and aggressive approach to battle. 200 col & b/w photos, 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

This collection of poetry and prose, written by young, white South African conscripts deployed during the so-called 'Border War' in Angola and Namibia, provides an intimate, sometimes shocking, glimpse into the horrors experienced by the young conscripts, or of the physical and emotional scars many of these 'walking wounded' still carry. 133pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

This is the story of a Kavango tracker who served for six years with Koevoet (Crowbar), the elite South African Police anti-terrorist unit, during the South West African/Namibian-Angolan conflict of the 1980s. Most white team leaders lasted only 24 months; the black trackers walked the tracks for years. Sisingi Kamongo tells the story of the 50 or so firefights he was involved in; he survived five anti-personnel mine and POMZ explosions and an RPG rocket on his Casspir APC vehicle; he was wounded three times; he tells of the trackers looking for the shadows on the ground, facing ambush and AP mines at every turn; he tells of the art of tracking, where dust can tell time. A previously untold perspective of the bush war, Kamongo's story is supported by two accounts from renowned Koevoet team leaders, Herman Grobler and Francois du Toit, and forms a powerful collection of experiences from South Africa's most successful counter-insurgency unit. 320pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

An objective history of the SADF Special Forces Unit, the Reconnaissance Commandos, uncovering information about multiple covert operations and South Africa's military involvement in Mozambique, Angola, Zambia and Rhodesia. Also includes a first hand account of the work of Koevoet, the police counter insurgency unit in Namibia. The first volume of the South African Secret Warfare trilogy. BNS, 608pp, UK. GALAGO BOOKS.

In the seventies, eighties and nineties, conscription had a profound effect on hundreds of thousands of young men, particularly those who had to serve the South African Defence Forces in the Angolan war. This title is a collection of reflections and memories of that time, collected by JH Thompson, who interviewed men who did National Service. Contributors include ordinary soldiers, Special Forces members, helicopter pilots, chefs and religious objectors. The title captures the spirit and atmosphere, the daily duties, the boredom, fear and other intense experiences of an SADF soldier. Gloss, 238pp, SOUTH AFRICA. ZEBRA PRESS.

Vlamgat, literally 'flaming hole' in Afrikaans, was the nickname the South African Air Force (SAAF) gave to the Mirage F1, its formidable frontline jet fighter during South Africa's long border wars in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. This account of the aircraft and its role is packed with information, illustrations and anecdotes. Col and b/w photos, index, 316pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

A wide ranging and explosive book exploring South Africa's covert military operations during the final years of apartheid. The author describes assassinations, de-struction and mayhem committed both at home and abroad, the infiltration of opposition movements, the cultivation of right wing churches and the attempts to start a civil war before the 1994 elections. BNS, 600p, UK. GALAGO BOOKS, 1919584010