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New Release - Koevoet
Revised and reworked - New material - New images
From a land you’ve hardly heard of – reportage you’ll never forget
KOEVOET!: EXPERIENCING SOUTH AFRICA’S DEADLY BUSH WAR
JIM HOOPER
“A thrilling exposé of modern military history,
and of one of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts”
Dan Mills, author of the bestseller Sniper
One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle
Group Under Siege
“His informal style of writing brings the reader immediately into the story
but what is most important is that he provides detail to conflicts that,
I suspect, most people in the Western World have never heard of
or if they have, have no real idea of what went on or why”
Editor British Army Review
An international bestseller since its release over 20 years ago, this new edition of Jim Hooper’s classic captures the courage, fear and intensity of the Namibian bush war.
Never before had an outsider been given unrestricted access to Koevoet, the elite South West African Police counterinsurgency unit. His five months embedded with the semi-secret and predominantly black Ops K coincided with one of the most vicious and determined infiltrations ever mounted by the communist-backed South West Africa People’s Organization. Crossing regularly into Angola in pursuit of the insurgents, he saw friends die next to him and was twice wounded himself. This updated edition, drawing on the recollections and diaries of the men he rode with, will fascinate yet another generation of readers.
To be released in February 2012
GG Books
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