Book Reviews

Hell in a very small place, subtitled The Siege of Dien Bien Phu is the classic account of a French defeat in...

We defended Normandy is a slim and frankly disappointing account of the Battle of Normandy as seen through German eyes. The author...

The furore surrounding the "arms deal" as government's so-called Strategic Defence Package (SDP) is known to most South Africans refuses to die...

The African National Congress' (ANC) handling of the so-called 1999 "arms scandal" was an important moment in the history of the democratic...

Kevin Woods is lucky to be alive. Somewhere in the 1980s he made a crucial mistake – to work for Colonel Joe Verster,...

The Kenyan "Emergency" of the 1950s was one of a number of nasty insurgencies and counterinsurgencies the British faced in the wake...

Counterinsurgency is largely about intelligence –keeping a finger on the pulse of a community, setting up and maintaining informer networks, making sense...

Assignment Selous Scouts attracted some media attention at the time of its publication in late 2006 because of claims that South African...

South Africa's famously tough stance against "mercenaries" is the result of the success of one man – Eeben Barlow, founder of Executive...