30° South Publishers was formed in South Africa in 2005, with the express purpose of publishing African history and military history with a particular focus on Southern Africa. The topics are presented in a wide variety of formats, from personal memoirs to regimental histories and academic treatises, all accessible and all educational and entertaining. Their books, all quality productions, vary too, from A5 paperbacks to full-color glossy coffee-table collector’s editions and most are available in eBook format.
Kevin Woods was sentenced to death in Zimbabwe and jailed for twenty years by Robert Mugabe. For more than five years of his detention he was held in the shadow of Mugabe’s gallows, cut off from the...
The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it’s also one of the least understood conflicts of the era....
Interest in KwaZulu-Natal’s battlefields – especially those of the Anglo-Zulu War – has soared since the film Zulu first screened in 1964, followed by Zulu Dawn in 1979 (the centenary of the Anglo-Zulu...
Rhodesia Regiment Moments of Mayhem by a Moronic, Maybe Militant, Madman
by Toc Walsh
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 9781928211365
Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers
Pub Date: 2014-10-19
Format: Digital download
Imprint: 30 Degrees South Publishers
256 Pages
Toc Walsh was conscripted into intake 138 Depot Rhodesia Regiment on 18 April 1974 and endured a year of what he deemed to be ‘military mayhem’. In July 1976, he was drafted again with the 10th...
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,
The Diary of a German-American in an Irish-Boer Commando
by Donal McCracken
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781920143763
Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers
Pub Date: 2014-10-19
Format: Paperback
Imprint: 30 Degrees South Publishers
168 Pages
Some years ago the author was working on a book of Ireland and the Anglo–Boer War (1899–1902) when, in the British Ministry of Defence Library, the old War Office Library, off Whitehall, he came upon a slim volume. It was a war diary written by a young German from Halbertstad named Ernest Luther. The diary, published in 1900 in English, consists of
Ronnie Selley, a South African from rural Natal, joined the RAF on a short-service commission in 1937, considered the Golden Age of aviation. During these glory years of Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart...
In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation...
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.
If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.
30° South Publishers was formed in South Africa in 2005, with the express purpose of publishing African history and military history with a particular focus on Southern Africa. The topics are presented in a wide variety of formats, from personal memoirs to regimental histories and academic treatises, all accessible and all educational and entertaining. Their books, all quality productions, vary too, from A5 paperbacks to full-color glossy coffee-table collector’s editions and most are available in eBook format. 
