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Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
RRP: $31.48$21.42These memoirs from one of the great leaders of our time are 'essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack ObamaThe riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long... -
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
RRP: $23.08$16.19With an introduction by author Anne Enright.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country... -
A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition by Leonard Thompson
RRP: $35.68$30.68A fresh and penetrating exploration of South Africa's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present"I did not think it was possible for a white person to write a history of South Africa which a black South African would... -
Access to History: South Africa, 1948-94: from apartheid state to 'rainbow nation' for Edexcel by Peter Clements
RRP: $46.20$42.48Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging... -
The Lost World Of The Kalahari: With 'The Great and the Little Memory' by Laurens Van der Post
RRP: $23.08$16.32Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and... -
Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 by Saul David
RRP: $27.28$19.09Saul David's Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 is a fascinating look at the most controversial and brutal British imperial conflict of the nineteenth century.The real story of the Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception, dishonour,... -
The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham
RRP: $35.68$26.63Featuring previously unpublished sources, this 'enjoyable as well as massively impressive' bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (Financial Times)The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History South Africa, 1948-94: from apartheid state to 'rainbow nation' by Peter Clements
RRP: $22.05$20.20Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
A Brief History of South Africa: From Earliest Times to the Mandela Presidency by John Pampallis 9781928232957
RRP: $29.38$24.21A Brief History of South Africa is an introduction to South African history from the earliest times to the Mandela Presidency. Using both a narrative chronology and thematic chapters, the book encourages critical thinking about how history shaped South... -
Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift by Ian Knight
RRP: $35.68$25.58The battle of iSandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one bloody day over 800 British troops, 500 of their allies and at least 2000 Zulus were killed in a staggering... -
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela 9781408703113
RRP: $52.50$36.50'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book' The Times'Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume I by Ian Knight
RRP: $52.50$37.00The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. - Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds V.C., Army Medical Department On 22... -
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell 9780393009262
RRP: $42.00$36.92In Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, only "advisors," many millions were spent, many... -
Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood
RRP: $39.80$31.56"The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African... -
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin
RRP: $23.08$15.37Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup dawned, and the Springboks... -
The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas 9780312427283
RRP: $42.00$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427283Author Elizabeth Marshall ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)... -
The Washing Of The Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 by Donald R. Morris
RRP: $52.50$37.84In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men... -
Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Elite Selous Scouts by Tim Bax 9781909384293
RRP: $62.90$44.77Apologies 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: $20.98$14.93'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: $33.58$24.38Waged 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... -
Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
RRP: $27.28$19.09Sir 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: $52.50$37.00This 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: $62.90$43.93Apologies 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: $20.98$14.28"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: $31.48$23.00Adrian 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: $37.78$33.16The 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... -
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
RRP: $23.08$16.19Growing 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... -
A Walk Against the Stream: A Rhodesian National Service Officer's Story of the Bush War by Tony Ballinger 9781910294437
$43.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294437Author Tony BallingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Rhodesian Light Infantryman 1961-80 by Neil Grant
RRP: $31.48$24.09The 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: $23.08$16.32_______________ '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... -
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
RRP: $23.08$16.32The 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... -
The Boer War: A History by Denis Judd
$43.13The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of... -
To Hell With Cronje by Ingrid Winterbach 9781934824306
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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 -
Flying Springbok, The: A history of South African Airways since its inception to the post-apartheid era by Lionel Friedberg
RRP: $50.38$43.07An 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... -
Battle on the Lomba 1987: The Day a South African Armoured Battalion Shattered Angola’s Last Mechanized Offensive - a Crew Commander's Account by David Mannall 9781909982024
RRP: $41.90$30.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982024Author David MannallFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe by Banning Eyre
RRP: $79.80$69.41Like 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... -
In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre by Lara Pawson
RRP: $46.18$39.98On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola - led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people. These dreadful reprisals are little talked of in Angola today - and virtually unknown outside... -
Selous Scouts: Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency Specialists by Peter Baxter 9781912866830
$39.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866830Author Peter BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War by Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
RRP: $63.00$55.50Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand... -
The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects by War Museum of the Boer Republics 9781526734037
$61.93The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects brings the victories and the tragedies-and the full extent of the human drama behind this war-to life through 100 iconic artefacts. While a Mafeking siege note helps to illustrate the acute shortages caused by the...