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Author : South African War Histories Advisory Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : South Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015010549585
Author : Ian van der Waag
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781928480907
The Second World War involved most of the countries of the world and left so many millions dead and maimed, disorganised and devastated through personal and communal loss. This book recovers some of South Africa’s soldiers’ experiences from the physical and mental debris of the war. Individuals are important; their lives – used as lenses – give us colour and texture, and their voices tell the stories of ordinary soldiers. Using their memoirs and diaries, the vitality of their endeavours is reasserted, their successes and failures, victories and indecencies are re-examined, and their magnanimity and the general triumph of the human spirit are celebrated.
Author : Henry James Martin,Neil D. Orpen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : South Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015051852807
Author : Neil D. Orpen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : South Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080711406
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070254052
Author : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811766081
After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Thrust by the British into the campaign against Erwin Rommel’s German Afrika Korps in North Africa, the South Africans fought a see-saw war of defeats followed by successes, culminating in the Battle of El Alamein, where South African soldiers made a significant contribution to halting the Desert Fox’s advance into Egypt. This is the story of an army committed somewhat reluctantly to a war it didn’t fully support, ill-prepared for the battles it was tasked with fighting, and sent into action on the orders of its senior alliance partner. At its heart, however, this is the story of men at war.
Author : Peter Brain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Radar
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070182626
Author : Judith A. Byfield,Carolyn A. Brown,Timothy Parsons,Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107053205
This volume offers a fresh perspective on Africa's central role in the Allied victory in World War II. Its detailed case studies, from all parts of Africa, enable us to understand how African communities sustained the Allied war effort and how they were transformed in the process. Together, the chapters provide a continent-wide perspective.
Author : Joel Mervis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080972321
Author : Bill Nasson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143027164
The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. It was an imperialist world war that tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts - from the domestic Afrikaner Rebellion on the highveld, through the sands of German South West Africa, the steamy bush of German East Africa, and on to the mud and blood of France and Flanders. This book is the first general study of the complex ways in which South Africans experienced the impact of the First World War, and responded to its demands, burdens and opportunities. Told with his customary narrative energy and ironic style, Bill Nasson's new history is a lively account not only of how South Africa fought the war, but also of the miscalculations and illusions that surrounded its involvement, and of how South African society came to imagine and remember that great and terrible conflict.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : IND:39000003139958
Author : Evert Kleynhans
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776190218
The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, when the Union of South Africa entered the war on Britain's side, the German government secretly reached out to the political opposition, and to the leadership of the anti-war movement, the Ossewabrandwag. The Nazis' aim was to spread sedition in South Africa and to undermine the Allied war effort. The critical strategic importance of the sea route round the Cape of Good Hope meant that the Germans were also after naval intelligence. Soon U-boat packs were sent to operate in South African waters, to deadly effect. With the help of the Ossewabrandwag, a network of German spies was established to gather important political and military intelligence and relay it back to the Reich. Agents would use a variety of channels to send coded messages to Axis diplomats in neighbouring Mozambique. Meanwhile, police detectives and MI5 agents hunted in vain for illegal wireless transmitters. Hitler's Spies presents an unrivalled account of the German intelligence networks that operated in wartime South Africa. It also details the hunt in post-war Europe for witnesses to help the government bring charges of high treason against key Ossewabrandwag members.
Author : Neil Orpen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:810606568
Author : Ian van der Waag
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781928480914
The Second World War involved most of the countries of the world and left so many millions dead and maimed, disorganised and devastated through personal and communal loss. This book recovers some of South Africa’s soldiers’ experiences from the physical and mental debris of the war. Individuals are important; their lives – used as lenses – give us colour and texture, and their voices tell the stories of ordinary soldiers. Using their memoirs and diaries, the vitality of their endeavours is reasserted, their successes and failures, victories and indecencies are re-examined, and their magnanimity and the general triumph of the human spirit are celebrated.
Author : David Killingray,Martin Plaut
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847010476
Based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of over half-a-million African troops who served with the British Army in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy, and Burma. Looks at the impact of army life and travel on the men and their families, and the role of ex-servicemen in post-war nationalist politics.
