Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent The story of the Cuban-South African war in Angola in 1987–88 through the eyes of the South Africans who fought in it. The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975...

Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines A gripping first-hand account of the combat operations and life of a member of the secretive and elite South African Special Forces, known as ‘Recces’. South African Special Forces, known as the ‘Recces’, are...

The road to Cuito Cuanavale: Soviet Soldiers’ accounts of the Angolan War 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...

Up Close and Personal in Third World Conflicts Venter's choice of military events is eclectic. He has four chapters on Afghanistan, three on Somalia, several on how Lisbon fought its desperate rearguard colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea...

The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit For his entire adult life he had been a soldier. Half of his military career he spent with 32 Battalion. During early 1993 he volunteered to compile the story of 32...

An Aviation Career in the Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm, United States Navy, and South African Air Force This book traces an extraordinary career through nearly four decades of military aviation. Dick Lord, well known as an aviation raconteur, tells...

A Trooper's War in the Rhodesian Light Infantry Fire Force is the account of Chris Cocks’s service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), during Zimbabwe’s civil war of the 1970s—a war that came to be known, almost innocuously,...

The Story of the Mirage F1 in the South African Air Force The original Vlamgat book has all but been sold out and the publisher no longer longer exists. As there was still a strong demand for the book, the...

The Selous Scouts were the toughest and most efficient killing machine anywhere in Africa, and its members consisted of the finest guerrilla fighting men in the Western world. Unconventional in many ways, disregardful of parade ground discipline, unorthodox in...

Photorealistic pencil drawings by the author with his own poetry. The book is a poignant exploration of the human experience of South Africans at war in the Rhodesian, SWA and Angolan bush. Author: Peter Badcock Publisher: Graham ISBN: 9780620053440

Undeclared War In the light of developments in Southern Africa during the last few months of 1978, it has been decided to add two new chapters to the second edition of this book. These are an Introduction, entitled The Third...

Conflict in Southern Africa "The Zambesi Salient" refers to the 1974 book by Al J. Venter, a work of political and military analysis of the conflicts in Southern Africa during the 1970s. Venter, who had firsthand experience in the war...