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African Adventure
Letters From Famous Big-Game Hunters
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
THIS small volume contains some of the letters I have received during the last thirty years or more from well-known big-game hunters and field-naturalists, many of whom have now passed away.
They were so interesting to me that I thought they might interest others who have shot in wilder Africa....
by Andrew Knight
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The Anglo-Boer Wars will introduce you to, one of the Victorian Wars of the British Empire. A bite size comprehensive account of the two Anglo-Boer Wars fought between 1880-1881 and 1899-1902. A fascinating tale of one of the bloodiest and expensive wars for over a century, which pitted the two Boer...
by Frances Colenso
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Zulu War-by possibly its most authentic historians.
Most written histories intend to be accurate, but they often suffer from the bias of perspective, and whilst this history of the Anglo-Zulu War is no exception, it is exceptional in that it is decidedly not a view of the conflict from an Imperial...
Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier
South Africa 1880–1902
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Waged 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 of warfare across these campaigns was...
by Mary Kingsley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world which has vanished and of a writer and explorer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps,...
A Predictable Tragedy
Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would...
Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets
Unusual Stories from South Africa's Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
South African history will never be the same again … Shunning the predictable, Max du Preez has put on his investigative journalist’s cap and examined our past from a fresh perspective. The result is a collection of extraordinary and mostly unknown stories, all meticulously researched and written...
by Robert Pitta
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
This book provides a highly detailed account of the history, organisation, uniforms and insignia of South African Special Forces from their origins up to the early 90s – units such as the 44 Parachute Brigade, the Hunter Group and the infamous SWA Police COIN Unit 'Koevoet'. These elite units of...
Heart of a Game Ranger
Stories from a Wild Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
MARIO CESARE, after decades as warden of Olifants River Game Reserve, has his feet firmly planted in this magnificent slice of Big Five country to the west of the Kruger Park. Cesare recounts some of the hair-raising, heartbreaking and heartwarming moments: a buffalo calf reunited with its pining...
Destination Casablanca
Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control.
In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch,...
General Smuts
South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Jan Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Wilson was inspired by his ideas, including the mandates scheme. He pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war.
The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget
Murder and Memory in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today's Africa
From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis...
Africa’s First Democrats
Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country’s independence when Africa’s first democrats appeared. While many African countries were dominated by authoritarian rulers when they entered the postcolonial era—and scholars have assumed this...
Memoirs of a Muhindi
Fleeing East Africa for the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
In Memoirs of a Muhindi, Mansoor Ladha bears witness to what happens when nations turn against entire religious and ethnic groups. When Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled Africans of Indian descent from the country in 1972, he unleashed an intolerance that set off an exodus from the entire region....