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ADDITIONAL BOOKS

ONLINE VERSION

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.

80 - 150

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’.

40 - 80

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.

50 - 100

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.

50 - 100

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.

80 - 140

B11

UYS Ian.

LONGUEVAL. UYS Publishers 1986. Soft cover pp. 62.

Sunned text block. Good condition.

30 - 60

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.

50 - 100

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.

80 - 120

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.

150 - 250

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.

60 - 80

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.

60 - 100

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.

60 - 80

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.

60 - 80

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.

80 - 150

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.

80 - 150

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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