THE SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE AT WAR

xii plus 271pp. Hardcover with pictorial DJ. Profusely illustrated in B/W and colour throughout.

Small rear to bottom rear spine-fold of DJ. Some warping to DJ. Bottom of spine is bumped with a 35mm repaired split to bottom rear spine hinge. The text block is clean and tight throughout, however the bumped bottom of spine is apparent throughout.

A book that finally brings the history and exploits of the South African Air Force gloriously alive. With more than 875 photographs, most of which have never before been published, this is the most comprehensive book on South Africa's air power. The book gives fascinating and often spine chilling accounts of the SAAF through the Second World War, Korea, and closer to home, the operational area along the southern frontier of Angola. Many of the full scale operations of the time are covered in detail, with authoritive, well researched and accurate stories attached to each photograph. A large section is devoted to the bush war, from the initial photo-reconnaissance sorties over Angola in 1967 to the heaviest fighting of the entire campaign in 1987, when a combined FAPLA/Cuban force under Russian leadership clashed with combined SADF/UNITA forces in the east and with SADF forces in the west.