Bold in Battle: South African Stories from the Second World War

Bold in Battle reveals how ordinary South Africans faced sacrifice and resilience during World War II.

‘We were damn near bomb happy the lot of us’; this note in an artillery man’s diary stands in stark contrast to an officer’s advice to his mother; ‘the only thing for any of us to do now is to try & keep a stiff upper lip.’ These two men were both South African and, like all other servicemen and women in the fledgling Union Defence Force, they volunteered their services when the Second Worl...