Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle
Max Hastings, Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle (London: William Collins, 2025) D-DAY ‒ Operation Neptune followed by the start of Operation Overlord and final nail in the coffin of Nazi Germany ‒ was a triumph […]
From The Thornveld
There is the high veld, the middle veld, the low veld, the bush veld, and now thoughts from the thorn veld,
Max Hastings, Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle (London: William Collins, 2025) D-DAY ‒ Operation Neptune followed by the start of Operation Overlord and final nail in the coffin of Nazi Germany ‒ was a triumph […]
THE EARLY 1990s were a time of acute instability in South Africa; but also of great hope. Structural change was yet to start, but many of the apartheid regime’s proscriptions, such as censorship, were falling […]
Karin Mitchell, The High Treason Club: The Boeremag on Trial (Cape Town: Penguin, 2025) THE TRIAL lasted nine years, occupied 1 280 court days, involved over 200 witnesses and produced a transcript of 60 000 pages. Twenty-three […]