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Recce: Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines - Paperback

by Koos Stadler
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Availability:In StockContributor:Koos StadlerPublish date:2021-09-09Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:CasemateISBN-13:9781636240480ISBN-10:1636240488UPC:9781636240480Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, AfricaBook Topic:Special Forces, SouthSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCH08S0KJ8
"This book is highly recommended and should be of interest to anyone interested in Special Forces operations, both in the African context and in other parts of the world. From a training and operational perspective, there is much food for thought in this publication." -- Insight on Africa

A gripping first-hand account of the combat operations and life of a member of the secretive and elite South African Special Forces, known as 'Recces'.

South African Special Forces, known as the 'Recces', are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they operate. Now one of this select band has written a tell-all book about the extraordinary missions he embarked on and the nail-biting action he experienced in the Border War.

Shortly after passing the infamously grueling Special Forces selection course in the early 1980s, Koos Stadler joined the so-called Small Teams group at 5 Reconnaissance Regiment. This sub-unit was made up of two-man teams and was responsible for numerous secret and highly dangerous missions deep behind enemy lines.

With only one other team member, Stadler was sent to blow up railway lines and enemy fighter jets in the south of Angola. As he crawled in and out of enemy-infested territory, he stared death in the face many times.
Language:EnglishPublisher:CasemateISBN-13:9781636240480ISBN-10:1636240488UPC:9781636240480Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, AfricaBook Topic:Special Forces, SouthSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCH08S0KJ8
Stadler, Koos: - "Koos Stadler has been a career officer in the South African National Defence Force for more than 30 years. Twenty-four of these he served in the elite South African Special Forces, better known as the "Recces" - spending 10 years in active service during the long drawn-out guerilla war against the then South West Africa Peoples' Organisation (SWAPO) on the border between Namibia and Angola. Stadler conducted many exceptionally sensitive missions, often facing extreme conditions of hunger, thirst, loneliness and danger. Fear was a constant companion and Stadler does not shy away from acknowledging this and sharing his innermost thoughts in the pages of Recce. He ended his career on a high note during a 4-year tenure as Defence Attaché to Saudi Arabia where he spent much of his time exploring the desert. During a 200 km solo hike through the Empty Quarter, one of the most barren stretches of sand on earth, he relived his small teams experiences and in his own words "buried the last of his fears in the sand"."
Publisher: Casemate

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