Piet Nortje: 2 books
32 Battalion
The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Every war has at least one - a unit so different, so daring, that it becomes the stuff of which legends are made and heroes are born. Among the South African forces fighting in Angola from 1975 to 1989, that unit was 32 Battalion. Founded in utmost secrecy from the vanquished remnants of a foreign...
The Battle of Savate
32 Battalion’s Greatest Operation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
On 21 May 1980, under the codename Operation Tiro-Tiro, 32 Battalion attacked and routed a FAPLA brigade at Savate, a small Angolan town 75 kilometres north of the border with South West Africa. Fifteen members of 32 Battalion were killed in the action and many more wounded. It was the highest South...