Army Books

This book is a coffee table book with few words, but has lots of candid photos showing the activities at Omega. The Book focuses on Charlie Company, the company seen as the most successful at this unit, which was the company with which the Author served as a young 2nd Lt. The Book takes the reader through the history of 31 Bn, including the starting years, the base at Omega, Charlie Company and its people , the operations, the Reunion and a brief look at how the base looks today (2006).

Three Frigates - The South African Navy comes of Age, Author: Rear Admiral Chris Bennett SAN (Ret), Story of the President Class Navy Frigates in the South African Navy

Borderstrike! South Africa into Angola. 1975-1980. Author: Major Willem Steenkamp MMM JCD SA Army (Ret). A reconstruction of the early “external operations” of the South West African/Namibian border war between 1978 and 1980.

Pro Patria. Author: Captain Barry Fowler. Personal accounts of South African national servicemen who did operational duty in South West Africa - Namibia and Angola in the 1970s and 1980s.

Memoirs of a conscripted National Serviceman, who served in the South African Army Service Corps between 1978 and 1980, including a year in South West Africa (now Namibia).