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19 With a Bullet : A South African Paratrooper in Angola by Granger Korff is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff's two years'service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war'in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the ‘standard'counterinsurgency activities of Fireforce operations, ambushing and patrols, to contact and destroy SWAPO guerrillas, he was involved in several massive South African Defence Force (SADF) conventional cross-border operations, such as Protea, Daisy and Carnation, into Angola to take on FAPLA (Angolan MPLA troops) and their Cuban and Soviet allies. Having grown up as an East Rand rebel street-fighter, Korff's military ‘career'is marred with controversy. He is always in trouble—going AWOL on the eve of battle in order to get to the front; facing a court martial for beating up, and reducing to tears, a sergeant-major in front of the troops; fist-fighting with Drug Squad agents; arrested at gunpoint after the grueling seven-week, 700km Recce selection endurance march—are but some of the colorful anecdotes that lace this account of service in the SADF.

Who reads 19 With a Bullet : A South African Paratrooper in Angola?

Author

Granger Korff

Publisher

30° South; 30 South Publishers (PTY) Ltd; 30 Degrees South Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781928359081

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Military, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.08 / 5 (65 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13