Sa: 138 books

A hard story that will astonish you at the depths a human being can reach in the darkness and the light that love can bring. A childhood marred by a seriously psychopathic mother with a taste for exotic abuse has given Dylan Cruz an outlook on risk and trust that would send most people scurrying...

Bantu Holomisa is one of South Africa’s most respected and popular political figures. Born in the Transkei in 1955, he attended an elite school for the sons of chiefs and headmen. While other men his age were joining Umkhonto weSizwe, Holomisa enrolled in the Transkeian Defence Force and rose rapidly...

In My Own Liberator, Dikgang Moseneke pays homage to the many people and places that have helped to define and shape him. In tracing his ancestry, the influence on both his maternal and paternal sides is evident in the values they imbued in their children – the importance of family, the value of hard...

The Flying Tigers: The dark days at the beginning of World War 2 saw the Japanese victorious across the Pacific. Clair Chennault was called to China by Chiang Kai-Shek to help his failing Chinese Air Force combat the Japanese Imperial Army. Chennault recruited one hundred American pilots as volunteers...

There were several attempts to assassinate the Brutal Dictator Adolph Hitler, some came very close, but they all failed to kill him. In this series we look at the ones that came the closest. First the plots: all initiated separately from each other, and by unsuspected, disparate individuals from...

The Roman Empire has just collapsed, and the Dark Ages are descending across Europe. It is the time when legends and myths are born. Some say Elves and Dwarfs lived alongside men and practiced magic and wizardry and other arts long forgotten. Dark Arts were also practiced by the evil powers that...

The Roman Empire has just collapsed, and the Dark Ages are descending across Europe. It is the time when legends and myths are born. Some say Elves and Dwarfs lived alongside men and practiced magic and wizardry and other arts long forgotten. Dark Arts were also practiced by the evil powers that...

While the Battle of Normandy raged, Allied Commanders launched the invasion of the “Soft Underbelly” of Europe in the south of France. The Germans had been stripping the French Mediterranean of its defensive divisions to throw into the cauldron in Normandy. Inserting O.S.S. Special Forces prior...

MIDWAY: The Battle of Midway is generally considered to be the crucial turning point in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. In a matter of minutes, an apparent Japanese victory turned into a stunning defeat for the forces of Japan, as four of the Emperor’s mightiest aircraft carriers were...

AFRIKA KORPS: When the Italian Dictator Mussolini’s forces were chased across the North African desert into Libya by inferior British forces, Hitler decided to halt the route by sending a few “light” divisions into Africa to stem another Italian defeat. “The Afrika Korps,” as this force...

There were several attempts to assassinate the Brutal Dictator Adolph Hitler, some came very close, but they all failed to kill him. In this series we look at the ones that came the closest. First the plots: all initiated separately from each other, and by unsuspected, disparate individuals from...

Tarawa: The Island of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands was defended by 2,600 well trained Japanese troops. Its Commander, Rear Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that a million Marines could not take Tarawa even if they had a hundred years to do it. A thousand yards off shore, a bow shaped coral reef assured...

EMP… Electromagnetic Pulse. When it happened it came fast; most people figured it was just a local outage, a minor problem, and oh, the power will come back on shortly… it didn’t. Hours passed, then days and finally weeks, then panic. The government tried to calm the masses by saying that the...

EASTERN FRONT: The strategic movement into the Crimea and the battle of Sevastopol was another one of Hitler’s grand schemes into which he bullied the German General Staff. At its center were the oil fields in the Caucasus, but it was a plan that should have waited until the Russian Forces were...