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ADDITIONAL BOOKS
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BOER WAR
B1
AIKENHEAD, Charles.
LADYSMITH’S 20 V.C.’S. Soft cover pp. 68. The personal stories of the awards of the
Victoria Cross for the defence and relief of
Ladysmith 1899-1900, covering the engagements, their locations and memorials,
with many maps and photographs. The awards
grouped under the following battles – Elandslaagte, Ladysmith, Colenso, Wagon
Hill, Caesar’s Camp, Wynne Hill, Hart’s Hill
and Terrace Hill.
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B2
CHAMBERLAIN, Max.
THE AUSTRALIANS IN THE
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902.
Army History Unit Department of
Defence first edition 1999. Soft cover
pp.134. As new.
An overview of events including detailed
maps, unit titles and formations, awards,
casualties and statistics concerning the
Australians during the Boer War. 77 maps, 8
charts and diagrams, 22 tables and lists.
Forerunners of the Diggers.
120 - 220
B3
CLOETE, Stuart.
RAGS OF GLORY.
Collins, London 1963. Hard cover with
dust jacket pp. 576.
Dust jacket chipped and torn. Rubbed
out handwritten note by previous owner
on dedication page. Stained text block.
This impressive novel of the Boer War is
painted on the immense canvas of the African veld, where Boers, British soldiers, women
and children move over the plains and
mountains in battles among burning farms. The scene shifts from Victorian London, hub
of Empire, to the farms and laagers of the
Boers; from urbane obtuseness on the one side to divided loyalties on the other, and the
horrors of civil war. There are glimpses of
Rudyard Kipling visiting the wounded of Mahatma Gandhi as a stretcher bearer, of
Winston Churchill as a War Correspondent, of
Conan Doyle doctoring the wounded in Bloemfontein.
The fact that Stuart Cloete’s ancestors fought
on both sides in the Boer War adds immeasurably to the scope and drama of the
novel.
60 - 100
B4
GIBBS, Gibbs.
THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE.
THE HISTORY OF THE BSAP 1889-
1903.
Volume One. British South Africa Police
1972. Hard cover with dust jacket pp.
266. The BSAP was raised ostensibly as a police
force to escort the Pioneer Column in the
occupation of Mashonaland in 1889, but in practice on the pattern of a British cavalry
regiment. This volume covers the occupation
of Mashonaland, Umtasa's Kraal, the Mashonaland Mounted Police, the occupation
of Matabeleland, Pitsani, the Jameson Raid,
the Matabele & Mashonaland Rebellions, Cannon Kopje, and the Relief of Mafeking
200 - 330
B5
KRUGER Rayne.
GOOD-BYE DOLLY GRAY. THE
STORY OF THE BOER WAR.
Cassell, London 1960 second edition.
Hard cover with dust jacket chipped and
torn, covered in plastic pp. 540. Original
edition. Worn condition. Pages loose.
Ex-library. This fascinating story reveals a war ‘fought
with great incompetence (and heroism and
generosity) on either side’.
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B6
REITZ Deneys.
COMMANDO. A BOER JOURNAL
OF THE BOER WAR.
Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg
1990. Hard cover with dust jacket pp.
320.
Former owners name stamped on free
endpaper. Good condition.
In 1899 Deneys Reitz, then aged seventeen,
son of the Chief Justice (later President) of the
Orange Free State, enlisted in the Boer army to fight the British. He had learnt to ride and
shoot almost as soon as he could walk, and the
skills he had acquired were to be taxed to their limits in the next five years of war. His
exploits during this time attest to his courage
and endurance – he fought at times with a Boer commando, consisting mainly of farmers on
horseback using their own guns; he was
involved in major actions such as the Battle of Spion Kop; and he met the young Winston
Churchill as a POW in Pretoria.
50 - 100
B7
SMITH, N.C. and SIMPSON, C.V.
THE FEATHERBED SOLDIERS.
THE NEW SOUTH WALES LANCERS
IN THE BOER WAR 1899-1902.
Mostly Unsung Military History
Research and Publications first edition
2001. Soft cover pp.135.
Many period b/w photos and maps, line
drawings, nominal rolls, bibliography, index, and with three small maps in pocket in back
pages.
120 - 220
B8
BROWN James Ambrose.
THEY FOUGHT FOR KING AND
KAISER. SOUTH AFRICANS IN
GERMAN EAST AFRICA 1916.
Ashanti Publishing, Johannesburg, 1991.
Hard cover with dust jacket pp. 374.
Former owners name stamped on title
page. Good condition.
James Ambrose Brown draws the reader into
the emotional and national frenzy of colonial
politics in German East Africa during the 1916-1918 campaign and the annexations of
African territories that preceded it.
This sets the stage for the narrative that chronicles the major role that South Africa
played in this war in tropical Africa. It was a
campaign in Tanganyika remarkable for the suffering, hardships and stubborn courage on
both sides. It tells for the first time the
important function that S.A. volunteers played under the command of Gen. Jan Smuts.
Smuts’s relentless drive to achieve quick
victory was thwarted by the soldierly abilities of Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck. There were
appalling losses on both sides as men &
animals succumbed to tropical diseases and starvation.
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B9
L’ANGE Gerald.
URGENT IMPERIAL SERVICE.
SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN
GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA
1914-1915. Ashanti Publishing, Johannesburg, 1991.
Hard cover with dust jacket pp. 352.
Former owners name stamped on title
page. Good condition. South Africa’s first entry into war was
surreptitious. In 1914 without consulting
Parliament or the public, the government of Gen. Louis Botha committed the country to
fighting for the British Empire against
Germany in South West Africa. Though ratified later by Parliament, the
cabinet’s decision split a populace that was
still trying to heal the wounds left after the Boer War. This, and the creation of the Union,
ignited an armed rebellion that came close to
civil war. And then, the rebellion put down, these same sworn enemies united with their
English-speaking countrymen to fight against
the Germans in South West Africa – under the Union Jack.
The campaign was overshadowed by the
bigger ones of the First World War and was largely overlooked afterwards by historians.
Yet it was from this campaign that South
Africa assumed the administration of South West Africa, which in turn let led to the long
lasting dispute with the United Nations, and
the final resolution – the emergence of independent Namibia.
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B10
BUCHAN John.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN
FRANCE.
T. Maskew Miller, Cape Town 1921.
Hard cover pp. 320.
Covered in plastic. Former owners name
written end paper. Age tanned pages.
Spine chipped. Worn condition. John Buchan was asked by the Union
Government to undertake the official History
of the South African Forces in Europe. At the time he was serving in France and had
therefore an opportunity to see something of the Infantry Brigade. For various reasons he
was unable to begin the work until after the
signing of the Armistice : since which date he had at his disposal all official papers, and
received the assistance of many South African
officers. He aims to tell as simply as possible the story
of a great military achievement, to his mind
one of the finest in the whole history of the campaigns; and, at the same time, to provide a
detailed account of the operations of the
infantry and the other services, which he felt would be of interest as a war record both for
the men who fought and for the country which
sent them forth.
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B11
UYS Ian.
LONGUEVAL. UYS Publishers 1986. Soft cover pp. 62.
Sunned text block. Good condition.
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WORLD WAR I
B12
WAR GRAVES OF THE EMPIRE.
Reprinted from the Special Number of
THE TIMES November 10, 1928. Hard
cover pp.80. Part I the million dead. Part II the Imperial
War Graves Commission and the Western
Front. Part III distant theatres of war. Part IV war at sea. Part V the Royal Air Force.
Distribution by country and number of
cemeteries, graves and memorials by country, with number of identified graves, unidentified
graves, and names on memorials. Eight plates
and 37 photographs of cemeteries and memorials.
80 - 150
B13
BAKER, E.C.R.
ACE OF ACES M St J PATTLE.
TOP-SCORING ALLIED FIGHTER
PILOT OF WORLD WAR II.
Ashanti Publishing . First edition 1992.
Hard cover with dust jacket pp.228 Born in Butterworth, South Africa, Pattle is
recognised as the Commonwealth’s top
scoring fighter Ace with 40 kills. The author describes Pattle’s life and service in detail.
Then tells of his in depth research and
interviews with former Adjutants of 33 and 80 Squadrons RAF, after which he puts Pattle’s
score at 64 kills.
90 - 150
B14
BIRKBY, Carel.
DANCING THE SKIES.
Howard Timmins Publishing 1982. Hard
cover with dust jacket pp. 198. Many strange stories of flying concerning
South Africa at war and in peace. Exploration
flights, fighter Ace’s, the longest living airman, and many more.
80 - 140
B15
BROWN James Ambrose.
THE WAR OF A HUNDRED DAYS.
SPRINGBOKS IN SOMALIA AND
ABYSSINIA 1940-41. Ashanti Publishing 1990. Hard cover
with dust jacket pp. 301.
Former owners name written on title
page. Good condition.
There are few today, even in military circles,
who realize or appreciate the part played in
South African forces in wresting the East African Colonies from the grasp of the Italian
Empire and the restoration of the Emperor
Haile Selassie to his throne in Addis Ababa. In April 1941 the South Africans had more
than 43 000 men fighting on land and in the
air in Abyssinia. Its war effort against the Fascist-Nazi combination was so outstanding
that though the beginning of World War II in
September 1939 caught South Africa unarmed and out of reach of supplies from Britain, it
provided a first-class motorised infantry, the
bulk of the artillery and all of the bomber and fighter strength for the East African
Campaign
South Africa supplied engineering, medical services and equipment as well as transport to
the other Imperial forces with whom its men
fought in the re-conquest of Abyssinia.
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B16
BROWN James Ambrose.
RETREAT TO VICTORY. A
PRINGBOK’S DIARY IN NORTH
AFRICA: GAZALA TO EL ALAMEIN
1942.
Ashanti Publishing 1990. Hard cover
with dust jacket pp. 301.
Former owners name written end paper.
Good condition. Until very recently the keeping of diaries by
soldiers was forbidden. Some did manage to
do so in the past and the history of warfare has consequently been enriched by their
jottings, especially from the viewpoint of the
ordinary soldier. To bring today’s reader into the picture,
James Ambrose Brown has provided a
preamble that sets out the political and military events which led up to World War II
and the two years of lost North African battles
that almost gave total victory to Germany and Italy.
50 - 100
B17
FRANKS, Norman.
TON-UP LANCS. A
PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE
35 RAF LANCASTERS THAT EACH
COMPLETED 100 SORTIES.
Bounty Books 2010. Hard cover & dust
jacket pp. 224.
Each aircraft’s history is recorded in over 200
photographs, supported by stories from aircrew that flew them, along with what
happened to them once - or if - they survived.
Only 1.9% of all Lancasters which undertook operational sorties, achieved 100, and the
highest of any Lancaster was 140. For each of
the 35 Lancasters, every sortie is recorded
with date and target, and the crew named
1942-45. Sorties ranged from all over Hitler’s
Third Reich, Northern Italy, during support missions before and after D-Day, as well as in
attacking V1 rocket launcher sites in Northern
France.
90 - 150
B18
HARRIS CJ.
WAR AT SEA. SOUTH AFRICAN
MARITIME OPERATIONS DURING
WORLD WAR II.
Ashanti Publishing 1991. Hard cover
with dust jacket pp. 301. Good condition.
In this largely anecdotal narrative that documents the tragic aspects, the amusing
incidents peculiar to time of war; and the
inspiring courage of South African naval personnel in the Second World War, Captain
CJ Harris skilfully recreates the remarkable
account of the war at sea. Here is a history not only of naval
engagements but also of the sea itself, the men
and women at war, and the ships that they sailed and fought in.
50 - 100
B19
HARTSHORN, Brigadier E.P.
AVENGE TOBRUK.
Purnell & Sons reprint 1960. Hard cover
with dust jacket pp. 137.
The findings of a secret Court of Enquiry into
the fall of Tobruk have never been published.
However the author tracked down one of the seven original copies of the evidence and
findings, and the relevant extracts are
published here.
80 - 150
B20
KESSEL, Lipmann.
SURGEON AT ARMS.
PARACHUTING INTO ARNHEM
WITH THE FIRST AIRBORNES.
Pen & Sword Military reprint 1988. Soft
cover pp. 178.
Personal memoirs of a Jewish South African surgeon, who was parachuted into Arnhem
with the First Airborne Division. He
performed many serious operations under appalling conditions. Brigadier Hackett
commander of 4th Parachute Brigade was
severely wounded in the stomach, was captured and taken to the St. Elizabeth
Hospital in Arnhem. He was operated on
by Lipmann-Kessel who with superb surgery managed to save the Brigadier's life. Lipman-
Kessel was awarded the M.C. After three
attempts to escape he was finally successful on 10 February 1945. He was awarded an
M.B.E. When he died in 1986 he was buried,
as was his wish, in Arnhem Civil Cemetery, in order to be close to the men who died at the
battle of Arnhem, and who are buried in the
nearby war cemetery.
80 - 150
WORLD WAR II
B21
KLEIN, Harry compiled & edited.
SPRINGBOK RECORD. WORLD
WAR II.
S.A. Legion of the British Empire Service
League 1946. Hard cover pp. 304.
A profusely illustrated record of South Africa’s volunteer forces on the ground and in the air in
Abyssinia, Egypt, the Western Desert and in
Italy.
80 - 150
B22
MERVIS, Joel.
SOUTH AFRICA IN WORLD WAR II.
50 YEARS.
Times Media Limited C1990. Soft cover
pp. 98. The purpose of this book, on the 50th
anniversary of the outbreak of war, was to pay
tribute to the bravery, determination and courage of South Africa's armed forces during
the war. They served with honour and
distinction.
80 - 150
B23
SAUNDERS, Hilary St George.
THE LEFT HANDSHAKE. THE BOY
SCOUT MOVEMENT DURING THE
WAR 1939-1945.
Collins second impression 1949. Hard
cover with dust jacket pp.
A record of the achievement of Scouts in
Britain and in countries overseas in particular
the occupied countries, where amazing feats of
heroism were performed.
80 - 150
B24
TURNER, John Frayn.
BRITISH AIRCRAFT OF WORLD
WAR II. Morrison & Gibb 1975. Hard cover with
dust jacket, pp.143.
Introduction by Douglas Bader.
Forty-nine types of aircraft extensively described with detailed specifications.
Magnificent photographs appear in a 50 page
colour section. Then a final section of the RAF in action in great air battles, individual feats of
heroism, aeroplane versus ship encounters,
ground attacks, special missions and so on.
80 - 150
B25
COLEMAN Francis L.
“NUNC ANIMIS”, THE
KAFFRARIAN RIFLES 1876-1986.
The Kaffrarian Rifles Assn., East London,
1988. Hard cover with dust jacket pp.
327. Limited Edition: No. 11 of 100
copies. Inscription and signed by author.
Foxing on front and back paste down and
free end paper.
The Kaffrarian Rifles, pride of the Border, trace the origin of the Regiment back to 1876 when
its pioneers in the Buffalo Volunteer Rifles saw
action in the 9th Frontier War in what is now Transkei. Subsequently it took part in the
Basutoland Campaign of 1879, was in the
Langeberg in 1897-7, and was prominent throughout the Anglo-Boer War including the
siege of Wepener and the famous ‘De Wet
hunt’ prior to the onset of the guerrilla warfare which brought the war to its end.
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SOUTH AFRICAN REGIMENTS
B26
GIBBS, Gibbs.
THE RIGHT OF THE LINE. THE
HISTORY OF THE BSAP 1903-1939. Volume Two. Kingstons Limited 1974.
Hard cover with dust jacket pp. 243.
The story of the transformation of this mounted
infantry regiment into a remarkably efficient professional police force.
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B27
ORPEN Neil.
THE DUKES. A HISTORY OF THE
CAPE TOWN RIFLES ‘DUKES’.
Cape Town Rifles Dukes Regimental
Council 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket
pp. 325. Black and white photographs.
Limited Edition: No. 875 of 1000 copies.
Foxing on front and back paste down and
free end paper. Back end paper fish moth
eaten.
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B28
ORPEN Neil.
GUNNERS OF THE CAPE. THE
STORY OF THE CAPE FIELD
ARTILLERY.
CFA Regimental History Committee 1965.
Hardcover with dust jacket pp. 310.
Limited Edition: No. 875 of 1000 copies.
This is the story of the Cape Field Artillery and
its transition, over the past 108 years, from the easy-going club atmosphere created by the
merchant gentle-man who first formed
“Duprat’s Battery of Volunteer Field Artillery”, to to-day’s disciplined Citizen Force regiment.
It tells of the guns of the Corps and the men
who have so faithfully served them. Guns have always been a part of Cape Town –
ever since the first was landed by Jan van
Riebeeck to protect his small settlement, and it is indeed fitting that the Cape Field Artillery,
one of the oldest volunteer artillery regiments in
the world, holding pride of place as the Senior Citizen Force unit of the South African Defence
Force, should have its home in the Mother City
and bear in its regimental badge, the arms of the City’s founder.
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RHODESIA
B29
MACDONALD, J.F.
THE WAR HISTORY OF SOUTHERN
RHODESIA 1939-45.
Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo 1976. Hard
cover with dust jacket, vol. 1, pp. 673.
Dust jacket chipped and torn but otherwise
in good condition. Former owners name
written on free endpaper.
This is the first vol. of a major two vol. work
describing in detail Rhodesia’s contribution to the Allied effort during the WW II. It covers the
period June 1939 to September 1942 and
includes, inter alia, the preparations undertaken on the home front, the organisation and training
of Rhodesia’s armed forces, and operations in the
East African and Western Desert theatres. The author makes telling use of after-action
reports.
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B30
MACDONALD, J.F.
THE WAR HISTORY OF SOUTHERN
RHODESIA 1939-45.
Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo 1976. Hard
cover with dust jacket, vol. 2, pp. 301.
Dust jacket chipped and torn but otherwise
in good condition. Former owners name
written on free endpaper.
This vol. is the second of a two-volume work describing in detail the part played by Rhodesia’s
armed forces during the WWII. It covers the
period September 1942 to August 1945 and includes a narrative of operations with the Eighth
Army on its advance westwards, , profiles of the
Rhodesian squadrons serving with the Royal Air Force and descriptions of the campaigns in Italy
and the Far East.
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BIOGRAPHY
B31
BOLSMANN, Eric.
WINSTON CHURCHILL. THE
MAKING OF A HERO IN THE SOUTH
AFRICAN WAR.
Galago Publishing first edition 2008. Soft
cover pp. 268. An interesting account of Churchill’s rise to
fame after his capture by the Boers in November
1889 and his dramatic escape less than a month later. His subsequent writings on the incident,
and his numerous lecture tours earned him a
great deal of money, far more than his earlier military service or his political career. He had
however reported in the press on activities in
three earlier campaigns in which he had served, and published a book on each for the North West
Frontier campaign in India and the campaign in
the Sudan. He even attempted to get himself recognised for gallantry in the Armoured Train
incident.
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B32
STEYN, Richard.
JAN SMUTS. UNAFRAID OF
GREATNESS.
Jonathan Ball Publishers reprint 2015. Soft
cover pp. 278. A book written in two parts. First an account of
Smuts’s long and eventful life, and second an
attempt to portray him in all his many dimensions – his personality, his home and
family, relationships with women, his spiritual
life an philosophy on holism, his interest in matters ecological, the matter of the black
franchise, and his experiences as a recognised
world statesmen.
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B33
TYNDALE-BISCOE David.
SAILOR SOLDIER.
Privately published 2004. Soft cover pp.
302. Limited Edition: No. 21 of 250 copies
Dog eared cover but otherwise in a very
good condition.
David Tyndale-Biscoe is the great nephew of Commander E.C. Tyndale-Biscoe. The
autobiography of his great uncle lay scattered in
diaries on dusty shelves of various archives until David discovered letters while he was in Natal.
The Commander had written them during the
siege of Ladysmith. Later, the whereabouts of his medals earned on sea and land were
discovered.
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