Mad Dog Killers

The Story of a Congo Mercenary

Ivan Smith

ISBN: 978-1-920143-51-0
(R185.00 + shipping)

During that long, hot summer of 1964, Ivan Smith, a mercenary volunteer in the Armée Nationale Congolais, came to witness and understand fear, the law of the jungle and the lust for killing that permeates Africa.

A member of ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare’s 5 Commando Group, he and his companions were nominally soldiers but there was little in the way of campaigns, tactics and discipline. Of conventional warfare there was none.

Zambezi Valley Insurgency

Early Rhodesian Bush War Operations Africa@War Volume 6

Dr JRT Wood

ISBN: 978-1-920143-64-0
(R185.00 + shipping)

Across Africa in the post-1956 era, the aspirations of African nationalists to secure power were boosted and quickly realized by the British, French and Belgian hasty retreat from empire.

The Portuguese, Southern Rhodesian and South African governments, however, stood firm.

The Bushveld

A South African Field Guide, including the Kruger Lowveld

Lee Gutteridge

ISBN: 978-1-920143-53-4
(R495.00 + shipping)

This revised, updated and expanded second edition of Lee Gutteridge’s comprehensive field guide covers a broad cross section of the most prominent species of flora and fauna of the South African Bushveld, including large parts of the Kruger Lowveld; all combined into one user-friendly manual that can be used by tourists and professional field guides alike. With over 4,200 colour photographs, sketches and diagrams describing over 1,300 species, laid out in accessible, colour-coded sections, everything you’ll need to know on a Bushveld safari is in here.

The If Man

Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the inspiration for Kipling’s masterpiece

Chris Ash

ISBN: 978-1-920143-58-9
(R250.00 + shipping)

A rollicking biography of Dr Leander Starr Jameson—hero, rogue and rascal of Empire and the man who inspired Kipling to write his masterpiece, If-

This famous poem by Rudyard Kipling is said to be based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured as a result of the 1896 raid that he and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen carried out on Paul Kruger’s Transvaal Republic. In this engaging biography in the style of Wilbur Smith-meets-Louis l’Amour, Ash recounts the life of this colonial statesman known as ‘Dr Jim’ or simply ‘The Doctor’. He was an enigmatic man.