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At They Call we did not falter
Author: Clive Holt
Published Zebra Press
194pp; size 210 X 148mm;
24pp mostly colour pics; map and in-text illustrations.
Trade paperback.
ISBN 1-77007-17-2
At Thy Call we did not Falter is a brutally frank and refreshingly honest account 17 years after the fact, of a teenage national serviceman’s exposure to and his bloody experiences during the Angolan War. It makes no attempt to glorify or demonise war, but simply tells the factual story of so many young white South Africans like Holt who were sent into battle against overwhelming forces when they were barely out of school. The book will resonate with the vast majority of men who served who are now entering or are already in middle age.
Its timing is extraordinarily fortunate, coming just as interest in Cuito Cuanavale is being revived, with moves afoot to arrange battlefield tours, and debates raging anew in military and veteran circles about who the victors and vanquished were. At Thy Call has the hallmark of a classic battlefield biography — a South African equivalent of All’s Quiet on the Western Front — as well as providing a window into the world of post-traumatic stress disorder. It is a rivetting account of how a government can take young teenagers — the heart of every army in the world — and turn them into killing machines.
With diary extracts, previously unpublished photographs and a rivetting narrative, this book transports the reader into the front line and the dark realms of war.
NB: The Price includes shipping costs inside South Africa.
