DIE SUID-AFRIKAANSE GEKLEURDES EN DIE EERSTE WÊRELDOORLOG (1981)

The author's original thesis for his doctorate in History which was published six years later in 1987 by RAVAN Press as "FIGHTING THEIR OWN WAR. South African Blacks and the First World War".

A product of the University bookbinders. Modest original black hardcover binding with gilt titles on front panel and spine. Only four or six copies would have been produced - one or two for the author, one for the University Library, and two for the Committee.

x + 432pp. Text in Afrikaans.

"Die Suid-Afrikaanse Gekleurdes en die Eerste Wêreldoorlog deur Albert Mauritz Grundlingh, voorgelê luidens die Vereistes vir die Graad D.LITT. ET. PHIL. in die Vak Geskiedenis aan die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika. PROMOTOR: S.B. Spies. Desember 1981.'

"The Coloured South Africans and the First World War by Albert Mauritz Grundlingh, submitted in Accordance with the Requirements for the Degree D.LITT. ET PHIL. in the Subject of HISTORY. PROMOTOR: S.B. Spies. December 1981."

The author wrote the controversial book Die Hendsoppers en Joiners (The Hands-uppers and Joiners) published in 1979, which was published in English in 2006 as The Dynamics of Treason (see previous lot).