Point of the Dagger by By Peet Coetzee
Signed by the Author Peet Coetzee.
Point of the Dagger by By Peet Coetzee
Memoirs of South African Top Scouts and Special Forces Small Team Recce Operations
Softcover, ISBN 9780620555296
Publisher: CED Print and Finishing Book Printers -,2013 first print and first edition
Condition: Good - Very good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some very slight/limited signs of wear and a slight curl to the corners and the bookblock is slightly dusty. The book’s pages are clean, intact and the corners and spine remains undamaged. This book has been well maintained and looked after thus far. Some notes neatly inscribed on back of front wrapper.
Peet Coetzee received recognition for two of his previous books, SPECIAL FORCE JAM STEALER and ONS VERGEET NIE, in a review by Die VOLKSBLAD, describing his books as the most gripping and richly illustrated war memoirs of all border war literature books.
Coetzee offers the necessary homage in the form of interesting short stories about the achievements of the Chief Scouts of South Africa. Dating back in history to heroes like De la Rey, Danie Theron and Hendri Slegtkamp and the adventurous accounts of Major P.J. Pretorius, who was busy with his own personal war against the Germans in German East Africa, long before the First World War commenced.
Later to be appointed as the Chief Scout of General Jannie Smuts, Pretorius is also seen as being comparable to the present-day Recce Operator by the actions and methods he applied during his time.
The creator or father of the highly successful Small Team concept was Captain Chris Schulenburg G.C.V., S.C.R. who served in the elite forces of the Rhodesian SAS, Selous Scouts and in the South African Special Forces.
The Recce Small Team operations conducted under the leadership of Colonel Andr Diedericks HCS, HC, SM, MMM and Major Jack Greeff HC, PMM, MMM who with their team mates successfully applied the Small Team concept in many operations they conducted, as told in this book.
