A Military History of Modern South Africa

A Military History of Modern South Africa Author:Ian van der Waag Language:English Format:Hardcover Dimensions:6" x 9" Pages:420 Photos:12 Illustrations/Maps Publisher:Casemate ISBN:9781612005829 Item No. 9781612005829 Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socioeconomic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Natal colonies together into the Union of South Africa.The Union Defence Force (UDF, later SADF), was deployed during most of the major wars of the century as well as a number of internal and regional struggles: the two world wars, Korea, uprising and rebellion on the part of Afrikaner and black nationalists, and industrial unrest. The century ended as it started, with another war. This was a flash point of the Cold War, which embraced more than just the