South Africa's 'Border War'

Gary Baines is Professor of History at Rhodes University, South Africa.

• Introduction 1. Writing on the Wrong Side of History? SADF Soldier-Authors Reclaim the Border War2. The Spectre of Vietnam: Lessons and Legacies of the Border War 3. The Cultural Construction of Combat: Narrative Templates of the Border War4. Codes of Conduct in Captivity: Narratives of South African POWs in Angola5. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Victimhood: A South African War Veteran’s Story6. The Battle for Cassinga: Competing Narratives and Complicating Histories7. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: Successful Stalemate and Vicarious Victory8. Digging up the Past: Revisiting the 1989 Namibian Ceasefire Violation9. The Freedom Park Fracas: Memorialising the Border War10. Veteranhood and the National Service Generation11. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

[This book] bears all the hallmarks of superior scholarship: profound thought and careful consideration, engagement with a wide-ranging historiography on memory and cultural studies, as well as firm intellectual engagement.