THE TERRIBLE ONES:

2 volumes (xxx, 569 pages., [32] pages of plates; xvi, [699] pages, [32] pages of plates): colour illustrations, portraits, maps. Small quarto. Paper covered boards, dust wrappers. Pictorial paper covered board slip case.                                                                                           

32 Battalion campaigned very effectively in Angola and Namibia during the bush war. The unit was largely moulded from former Angolan rebels into a fully fledged SADF unit which retired undefeated from the battlefield, after 12 years of constant front-line combat. At 25 years of age, Nortje became the youngest regimental sergeant major in the SADF's history, in charge of training at Buffalo Base in the Caprivi.