Just finished "The Protestant Revolution" by William G.Naphy a BBC production book.
Not bad, a little slow in the beginning with a lot of dates and historical references, but leads up to the whole legacy of the reformation in the world around us very well. Deals with how protestant principles and puritanical influences still shape many of the value systems that guide our modern society, from the stand on Gay rights, the war on terror, to the re-emergence of fundamentalism in all spheres of religious belief.
Just starting "The spiders of Allah", by James Hider , the travels of a non religious person on the frontiers of a holy war, basically one mans journey to try understand how people can not only believe in things like Zionism, Christianity and the Koran, but actually die and kill for them too.
Seems good so far, and an easy read, with a certain dark underlining humour.
Also just purchased 3 little gems, they are once off publications, (self published it seems) by three different local authors, 2 of which are signed by the authors.
1) Special Forces "Jam Stealer" by Peet Coetzee ( about the Recce's)
2) Only My Friends Call Me "Crouks" by Dennis Croukamp ( Rhodesian Reconnaissance Specialist)
3) A Greater Share of Honour , The Memoirs of a Recce Officer by Major Jack Greeff.
There is a fantastic book shop at the top end of Long Str (C.T.), the last building on your right before the church (Select Books), and they seem to deal mainly with books of an African historical theme.
That is where i managed to source the 3 gems mentioned above.
He is also a great repository of knowledge, with a number of good contacts countrywide, and often knows of sourcing many books that are possibly out of print or out of circulation, his prices are fairly high sometimes, but not bad from a collectors POV.
Example of a few sourced there:
The Super Afrikaners - Inside the Broederbond (Reprint)
OB Patriots or Traitors - About the Ossewa Brandwag (1st Edition, dont know if it ever was reprinted)
South African Radar in WW2 - Development of Radar in combating U-Boats and Service raiders around the coast. (1st Edition, one off print run)
The Sheltering Desert, Henno Martin, - factual account of 2 Germans who lived in the Namib for 2 and a half years to avoid internment during WW2. (Reprint)
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