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Skinned
Skinned
Written by Antjie Krog
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781609804633
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Skinned
Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog


Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.95

One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.

Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume... Read more >
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Skinned
Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $23.95

One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.

Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring a... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.
South African Special Forces

Written by Robert Pitta
Illustrated by Simon McCouaig


Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.95

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... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
The Boer War

Written by Christopher Latham
Illustrated by Michael Roffe


Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $13.95

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War. Both sides are covered, and the campaigns summarised. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail. Read more >
The Unspoken Alliance
The Unspoken Alliance
Written by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307388506
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The Unspoken Alliance
Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
Written by Sasha Polakow-Suransky


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $16.00

Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South Africa, for its part, was controlled by a regime of Afrikaner nationalists who had enthusiastically supported Hitler during World War...

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The Unspoken Alliance
The Unspoken Alliance
Written by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307379252
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The Unspoken Alliance
Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
Written by Sasha Polakow-Suransky


Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $11.99

A revealing account of how Israel’s booming arms industry and apartheid South Africa’s international isolation led to a secretive military partnership between two seemingly unlikely allies.
 
Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left: socialist idealists like David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir vocally opposed apartheid and built... Read more >
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The Innocents
The Innocents
Written by Tatamkhulu Afrika
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781583227220
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The Innocents
A Novel
Written by Tatamkhulu Afrika


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $13.95

Inspired by the author’s years as an activist in Apartheid-era Cape Town, The Innocents is a gripping account of how, in the myriad political battles of our recent past, an even greater number of private wars were lost or won.
Yusuf and three of his friends attempt to prove themselves worthy of... Read more >
Seasonal Fires
Seasonal Fires
Written by Ingrid De Kok
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781583227183
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Seasonal Fires
New and Selected Poems
Written by Ingrid De Kok


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $18.95

Ingrid de Kok's first book to be published in the United States is also the first volume to demonstrate the variety and continuity of de Kok’s work over the last 25 years. In South Africa and internationally, readers have recognized and responded to de Kok’s deeply developed sense of compassion. South... Read more >
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