Biography / Memoir Titles:
Echoes of an African War
Chas Lotter
First published in 1999 -
No longer in print – limited stocks
In Echoes of an African War, Chas Lotter, the soldier poet of Southern Africa, matches his haunting poetry with authentic photos, paintings and sketches to tell the story of the Rhodesian bush war – the formula is both effective and stunning. You have to see it.
Nineteen With A Bullet
A rough, tough ’Bat in the bush wars of Namibia and Angola
Nineteen with a Bullet—A Parabat in Angola is a fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years’ service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war’ in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola.
Apart from the ‘standard’ counter-insurgency activities of Fireforce operations, ambushing and patrols, to contact and destroy SWAPO guerrillas, he was involved in several massive South African Defence Force (SADF) conventional cross-border operations, such as Protea, Daisy and Carnation, into Angola to take on FAPLA (Angolan MPLA troops) and their Cuban and Soviet allies. >>Read More<<
West of the Moon
Early Zululand and a game ranger at war in Rhodesia
West of the Moon—A Game Ranger at War is a sweeping canvas that evokes a bygone era of the 1940s’ colonial Natal through to the cruel intensity of the ‘Bush War’ that ravaged Rhodesia in the 1970s. The book is in two distinct parts...
Kenya Cowboy
Originally published in 1999, Kenya Cowboy has been updated and re-released with a new analytical postscript. This is a stylish, first-hand account of Britain’s futile and often tragic struggle to retain its rich stake in East Africa in the face of the relentless Mau Mau uprising...
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Look Me in the Eye
“One of the best personal odyssey stories I have ever read” Dr. Sam Vaknin, author of Malignant Self Love “This is a story that I will never forget”...
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Lost in Africa
“Irreverent, self-deprecating, hilarious and poignant, Stu’s story will make you alternately laugh and cry” —Chris Cocks, author of Fireforce ‘Lost...
Mzee Ali
‘Mzee’ is the Swahili word for an ‘old timer’, a respected elder. Mzee Ali Kalikilima was born near the present-day town of Tabora in western...
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The Kevin Woods Story
“He who tells the truth is not well liked” Bambara of Mali proverb Kevin Woods was sentenced to death in Zimbabwe and jailed for twenty years by...
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Wide Boy
Wide Boy – the true-ish story of a Jo’burg spiv 'wide boy (dated Brit inflam derog) person who is shrewd, unscrupulous and often dishonest, esp in...
