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The Climb: The Autobiography by Chris Froome
RRP: $14.18$13.91WINNER OF THE 2018 GIRO D'ITALIA!THREE TIME WINNER OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE.THE FIRST MAN SINCE BERNARD HINAULT TO HOLD THE MAGLIA ROSA, THE MAILLOT JAUNE AND THE MAILLOT ROJO AT THE SAME TIME.This is Chris Foome in his own words.'Engaging, vividly evoked'... -
The Boer War by Martin Bossenbroek
RRP: $32.25$23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807474Author Martin BossenbroekFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: Great Battles by Ian F. W. Beckett
RRP: $15.47$10.87This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu... -
The Burning Land by George Alagiah 9781786897947
RRP: $12.89$8.64'Gripping' Guardian'Pacy and stylish' Jeremy Vine 'It was never meant to be like this. Sabotage, yes. Propaganda, yes. All of that and more - but not this. Not murder.'South Africa has become a powder keg. Its precious land is being sold off to the... -
Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Elite Selous Scouts by Tim Bax 9781909384293
RRP: $38.64$27.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384293Author Tim BaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $12.89$9.17'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into... -
Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier: South Africa 1880-1902 by Ian Knight
RRP: $20.63$14.98Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880-81 and 1899-1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos. The nature... -
The Housemaid's Daughter by Barbara Mutch
RRP: $12.89$7.69Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel.Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she has... -
Her Dark Wings by Melinda Salisbury 9781788452137
RRP: $11.60$8.64Her Dark Wings is a modern-day take on the Persephone myth, infused with the intense potency of teenage passions. The richness of Greek myth is vividly brought to life by the immediacy and originality of a fiery, contemporary drama. And iconic mythic... -
Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
RRP: $16.76$11.73Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into... -
Baden Powell s Fighting Police The SAC: The Boer War unit that inspired the Scouts by Ross, Hamish 9781399083621
RRP: $32.25$22.73This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry. Thanks to his flair for organisation, Baden-Powell is asked to create a... -
The Spioenkop Campaign: The Battles to Relieve Ladysmith, 17-27 January 1900 by Robert Davidson 9781804513316
RRP: $38.64$26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513316Author Robert DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
These Are Not Gentle People: A tense and pacy true-crime thriller by Andrew Harding
RRP: $12.89$8.77"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS"Magnificent and heartbreaking" Washington Post"Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT"This is a book of profound importance . . . A masterpiece" ALEXANDER McCALL... -
Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War by Adrian Greaves 9781526791870
RRP: $19.34$14.13Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action at Rorkes Drift to other fiercely fought battles. He covers little recorded engagements and battles such as... -
London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid by Ken Keable 9780850366556
RRP: $23.21$20.37The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their activities in South Africa, how they... -
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation by Justice Malala
RRP: $32.25$20.95'Superbly reported, compelling . . . wonderfully captures the spirit of that time' Financial Times'Gripping and important' Observer __________________________________________________________________________ Nine days that set the course of a nation..... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: $16.76$11.73WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand... -
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
RRP: $14.18$9.95Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicious civil war, and then as an... -
Rhodesian Light Infantryman 1961-80 by Neil Grant
RRP: $19.34$14.80The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed as a commando battalion in 1964 after the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the RLI... -
Affluence Without Abundance: What We Can Learn from the World's Most Successful Civilisation by James Suzman
RRP: $14.18$10.02_______________ 'Insightful ... Avoiding both modern conceits and romantic fantasies, Suzman chronicles how economics and politics have finally conquered some of the last outposts of hunter-gatherers, and how much humankind can still learn from the... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
RRP: $19.34$14.13John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... -
The Battle of Majuba Hill: The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881 by John Laband 9781911512387
RRP: $25.74$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512387Author John LabandFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Train Driver and Other Plays by Athol Fugard
RRP: $19.34$17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363860Author Athol FugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey.Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of... -
Unfair Game: An investigation into South Africa's captive-bred lion industry by Michael Ashcroft 9781785906114
RRP: $19.34$14.13In April 2019 Lord Ashcroft published the results of his year-long investigation into South Africa's captive-bred lion industry. Over eleven pages of a single edition of the Mail on Sunday he showed why this sickening trade, which involves appalling... -
Whites and Democracy in South Africa by Roger Southall 9781847013743
RRP: $33.53$32.03Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens". ... -
Rorke's Drift by Adrian Greaves
RRP: $16.76$11.09The story of the bravest battle ever fought.On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned... -
The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid by Thomas Grant 9781529372861
RRP: $32.25$21.65'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator'Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt, and whose everyday fights against injustice should inspire us all' David LammySydney Kentridge carved out a reputation... -
The Impostor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: $12.89$8.64FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEShortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best BookA gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man... -
Winnie Mandela: A Life by Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob 9781868729265
RRP: $24.51$17.09Everyone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few people know much about the life behind the headlines, myths and soundbites. This... -
Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases by Howard Phillips 9780821420287
RRP: $19.34$16.91This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and... -
Legends: Twelve People Who Made South Africa a Better Place by Matthew Blackman 9781776391066
RRP: $18.05$11.87We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it's easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen... -
Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez by Craig Bartholomew Strydom
RRP: $16.76$11.73In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom heard the same music. It... -
To Hell With Cronje by Ingrid Winterbach 9781934824306
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934824306Author Ingrid WinterbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 340g -
Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches: The South African Tour of 1970 by Colin Shindler 9781785316340
RRP: $25.79$18.42Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches is the compelling story of a cricket tour framed in a landscape of turbulent social history. Cricket, England's gentle summer game, was shaken to its core by demonstrations, strikes, arrests and violence amid growing... -
Flying Springbok, The: A history of South African Airways since its inception to the post-apartheid era by Lionel Friedberg
RRP: $30.95$26.46An artistic rendering of the African antelope, the Springbok, was depicted with stylized wings to serve as the logo of South African Airways (SAA) for well over 60 years. It was replaced by a new corporate identity when the airline was rebranded after... -
The Top Ten of Everything Chelsea: The Best of the Blues from Azpilicueta to Zola by Clive Batty 9781785318610
RRP: $24.50$17.56Brimming with Blues trivia, facts and stats, The Top Ten of Everything Chelsea covers every aspect of the club's long and colourful history in dozens of ranked lists. A star cast features the best of the British, European and South American players who... -
Call Of The Litany Bird: Surviving the Zimbabwe Bush War by Susan Gibbs 9781907991004
RRP: $23.21$20.56As a trained nurse, newly married to the son of the Governor of Rhodesia during the UDI years, Susan writes compellingly about bringing up a family on their farm in Matabeleland in the midst of the unfolding terror and growing number of atrocities. ... -
Country Of My Skull by Antjie Krog
RRP: $16.76$11.73The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993. It... -
Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe by Banning Eyre
RRP: $49.02$42.63Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now...