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Between 1967 and 1994 the then-South African Defence Force (SADF) conscripted approximately 600,000 men (mostly Caucasian school-leavers) for compulsory military duty, commonly known as...

A dry but rich account of time spent with the famous 32 Battalion. Marius Scheepers was a national service signals officer (9C)...

Well-known military writer Willem Steenkamp's latest book, Assegais, Drums and Dragoons, A Military and Social History of the Cape 1510-1806 is a...

Author Chris Ash asserts Victorian poet Rudyard Kipling wrote his signature poem, If, with Leander Starr Jameson, a man who feared nothing...

Shadow Commander follows in the wake of author Mike Guardia's first book, American Guerrilla, reviewed elsewhere on defenceWeb. Researching the former unearthed...

Co-issued with a British publisher, "Operation Dingo" is the first of the "Africa@War" series of which four titles have now been released:...

"Selous Scouts" is the fourth in a new series on African conflict, "Africa@War" and unlike the other three volumes in the series...

From his earliest day in politics and literally to his last, Adolf Hitler never tired of talking about his experiences as a...

From his earliest day in politics and literally to his last, Adolf Hitler never tired of talking about his experiences as a...

In SuperFreakonomics authors Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner again take an unconventional view of the everyday. Indeed, the book is...

Anthony Beevor published his D-Day, the Battle for Normandy, in 2009, adding another popular work to an ever-growing literature on the subject....

In The Shadow World Andrew Feinstein, assisted by Paul Holden and Barnaby Pace, tries to portray the global defence industry as uniquely...

To mangle Clausewitz somewhat, the theory of war is simple, but the practice can be very hard. This also applies to counterinsurgency,...

As far as I can determine, there is not yet an English translation of Anderkant Cuito – 'n Reisverhaal van die Grensoorlog....

The Rhodesian security forces could muster some 1500 troops on any given day during the 1966-1980 "Bush War", confronting them with an...

There seems to be no end of excellent titles from the 30 degrees South publishing stable, and The search for Puma...

"The general public could not comprehend what their boys had gone through or how the war had changed them," writes author James...

General Rupert Smith published his "The Utility of Force – The Art of War in the Modern World" to well-deserved acclaim some...

Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" is arguably one of two great books written on the topic, the other being Major General...

The late Carel Birkby was a fine writer and "Uncle George" illustrates well his fine eye and finer humour. Brigadier, then Major...

What an excellent book! Well written, well illustrated and humorous, Pathfinder Company tells the story of the short-lived reconnaissance and raiding force...

"Hani – A life too short" is a sympathetic biography of African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) "struggle"...

In a Bosnian Trench is the powerful melancholy autobiography of Bosnian teenager Elvir Kulin, a boy a who stayed home in a...

I forget who wrote that events in the Middle East were bloody-minded "spite and malice passing as normalcy", but that would be...

"It was good fun commanding a division in the Iraq desert. It is good fun commanding a division anywhere." - A memorable...

Impressions can indeed be misleading. Warfighting is a military manual. An US Marine Corps military manual. Yet it is the best, single-volume...