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South African Special Forces (Elite)

This book provides a highly detailed account of the history, organisation, uniforms and insignia of South African Special Forces from their origins up to the early 90s ? units such as the 44 Parachute Brigade, the Hunter Group and the infamous SWA Police COIN Unit 'Koevoet'. These elite units of the South African Defence Force and the special anti-terrorist units of the South African Police Forces comprised the largest, best trained and best equipped of any country in southern Africa. Robert Pitta and Jeff Fannell provide the text in a volume packed with photographs and illustrations.

File Size: 25388 KB

Print Length: 64 pages

Publisher: Osprey Publishing; 1 edition (January 20, 2013)

Publication Date: January 20, 2013

Sold by:  Digital Services LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B01BY3ANIU

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

X-Ray: Not Enabled

Word Wise: Enabled

Lending: Not Enabled

Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

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A comprehensive and fascinating book, a good primer on the elite of the SADF and SA Police Services. Besides the Recce Commandos, covers such units as the SA Marines, the Police "Hunter" units of the 60s and 70s, and the 44 Para Brigade and Pathfinders. Highly recommended.

Covers this nation many special op units from training to organization. Book also covers in detail the battle that these elite soldiers fought in. Great pic and color plates. New respect for south africa soldiers

A very short summary of South African special forces with lots of photographs and illustrations showing the aforementioned forces. When read with other books about this time and place of conflict throughout southern Africa it definitely enhances the knowledge base.

I think there is an argument that given the units covered, there might be some that feel other units should also have been included. But overall it provides a very useful reference for the "specialist" units that operated within the SADF. Many of the units may still exist in the SANDF (post 1994), but many believe (me included) that there is a clear difference between the units of the SADF and SANDF. Irrespective of these arguments, it's still a very good and interesting book.

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