30 Degrees South: 22 books
Surviving the Ride
A Pictorial History of South African-Manufactured Armoured Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Mine-protected and mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles are today standard in the US, most major western armed forces and many other armies as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The South African Army was already routinely using mine-protected armored personnel carriers and...
19 With a Bullet
A South African Paratrooper in Angola
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years’ service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war’ in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the ‘standard’ counterinsurgency activities of Fireforce operations,...
Kruger, Kommandos & Kak
Debunking the Myths of The Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it’s also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists...
Okavango
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
After The South African Bushveld—A Field Guide from the Waterberg, this is the second comprehensive field guide to be published in southern Africa that covers a detailed cross-section of the most prominent animals, plants, birds, fish, insects and tracks and signs of a particular region. It includes...
The Bushveld 2nd Ed.
A South African Field Guide, Including the Kruger Lowveld
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This revised, updated and expanded second edition of Lee Gutteridge’s comprehensive field guide covers a broad cross section of the most prominent species of flora and fauna of the South African Bushveld, including large parts of the Kruger Lowveld; all combined into one user-friendly manual that...
Bushman Rock Art
An Interpretive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The prehistoric record of southern Africa extends back some 2 million years. The oldest cultural artefacts are stone tools such as handaxes, cleavers and choppers. In more recent centuries, archaeologists have found an extensive repertoire of artefacts including not only stone tools, but tools of...
The Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain
1820 Settler
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
This is the story of the 1820 Settler, Jeremiah Goldswain, in his own words. After thirty-eight years on the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony, he sat down to write his memoirs. It is a close-up view of four decades during a period when the British Empire was expanding in southern Africa, with the...
Teddy Luther's War
The Diary of a German-American in an Irish-Boer Commando
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A German-American, in South Africa, fighting the British, in an Irish commando, in the Boer army Some years ago Donal McCracken was working on a book of Ireland and the Anglo–Boer War (1899–1902) when, in the British Ministry of Defence Library, the old War Office Library, off Whitehall, he came...
Tale Gunner
The Lighter Side of South African Military Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Nothing quite beats that rawness of military humour. It’s the same the world over. This hilarious collection of South African military anecdotes will—for the less sensitive reader—have you doubled up with mirth.
It is an ingrained tradition for South Africans to stand around a fire in...
The Kevin Woods Story
In the Shadow of Mugabe's Gallows
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Kevin Woods was sentenced to death in Zimbabwe and jailed for twenty years by Robert Mugabe. For more than five years of his detention he was held in the shadow of Mugabe’s gallows, cut off from the world, naked and in solitary confinement. He had been a senior member of Mugabe’s dreaded Central...
by Robin Binckes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
“... enjoyable, convincing story wrapped in dramatic, well-researched history”
— John Gordon Davis, bestselling author of Hold My Hand I’m Dying. It is 1834. The Eastern Cape frontier is burning. Rauch Beukes, a young Boer of 17, returns to the family homestead to find it razed, the livestock...
Mampara
Rhodesia Regiment Moments of Mayhem by a Moronic, Maybe Militant, Madman
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Toc Walsh was conscripted into intake 138 Depot Rhodesia Regiment on 18 April 1974 and endured a year of what he deemed to be ‘military mayhem’. In July 1976, he was drafted again with the 10th Battalion Rhodesia Regiment to continue his wild ride into the maniacal world of combat. The country...
by David Fleminger
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
From the mists of Basotho legend—from the time of King Moshoeshoe. The tiny country of Lesotho is entirely surrounded by South Africa, yet it remains one of the most remote and unexplored areas in the region. The reason for this isolation is the mountains—row upon row of serrated peaks make this...
I Won't Be Home Next Summer
Flight Lieutenant R.N. Selley DFC (1917–1941)
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Ronnie Selley, a South African from rural Natal, joined the RAF on a short-service commission in 1937, considered the Golden Age of aviation. During these glory years of Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart few guessed at the brewing storm and dark days to come. After completing his training on antiquated...
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