The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit
Piet Nortje, Paperback, 2003, New.
Every war as at least one - a unit so different, so daring, that it becomes the stuff of which legends are made and heroes are born. Among the South Africa forces fighting in Angola between 1975 to 1989, that unit was 32 Battalion.
Founded in the utmost secrecy from the vanquished remnants of a foreign rebel movement, undefeated in 12 years of front-line battle, feared by enemies that included both conventional Cuban armies and Namibian guerilla fights, the Buffalo Soldiers became the South African Army's best combat unit since WW2. No fewer than 13 members won the highest decoration for bravery under fire.