19 WITH A BULLET: A South African Paratrooper in Angola
19 With a Bullet not only captures the mood of the times, it traces the experiences of countless thousands of SADF conscripts, very few of whom faced anything like the danger that Korff and his mates did, within the context of the great South African story of our miracle transition to a Rainbow Nation.The biggest triumph of this book remains its honesty. It is because of Korff's honesty and courage as a human being rather than a soldier that this memoir of a time already fast being airbrushed from the collective psyche of this country will remain. It will haunt us and it will scare us and, if nothing else, perhaps will stop politicians from being so quick to blithely commit young South Africans to un-winnable and ultimately pointless wars with no thought to the consequence of those who survive them. --Saturday Star, April 2009A blood-pounding shoot 'em up; from a boots-on-the-ground paratrooper fighting Swapo terrorists in southern Africa. A must for the student of unconventional warfare. --Soldier of FortuneOpinionated, brash, brutally honest and bloody marvellous. I loved it! --Jacqui Thompson, bestselling author of 'An Unpopular War'