Battle Scarred

Hidden costs of the Border War

Anthony Feinstein

ISBN:

9780624053743

Epub ISBN:

9780624058472

Uitgewer:

Tafelberg

Datum Vrygestel:

Julie 2011

Prys (incl. VAT):

R 260,00

Formaat:

Sagteband, 208pp


Oor hierdie boek:

A gritty, first-hand account of a young doctor's experiences in the psychiatric unit of the South African Army during the Border War. Anthony Feinstein is forced to face the Border War when he can no longer escape the call-up. With only a few weeks’ training in this field, he is thrust into the army’s psychiatric unit. Battle Scarred is his revealing account of his experiences treating bossies soldiers and all manner of war-induced psychosis. Feinstein starts out at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria where his first patients are talking to the stars or claiming to be Jesus. Next, he is dispatched to Oshakati, home to the largest military base in the war zone, to screen troops for post-traumatic stress disorder. He steps into a world of alcoholism, insomnia, family violence and venereal disease. During a stint at an outpost manned by Koevoet, Feinstein experiences the soldiers’ shocking cruelty – and what it does to their psyche. The consequences of war and the idiosyncrasies of army life present themselves in strange ailments. Chilling stories are told not only by the conscripts, but also by the wives of the permanent force soldiers who live on the base. A book that demands to be read, not only by the thousands of ex-soldiers still carrying the invisible scars, but by all South Africans.

VERWANTE BOEKE

Love and Above

Sarah Bullen

But He Speaks So Well

Ivan Johnson

IMPOSSIBLE SKIES

Frans Meyer

Starlite Memories

Dov Fedler

Jwara! Induna's Daughter

Joyce Piliso-Seroke

The ANC Spy Bible

Moe Shaik

Anton Goosen

Hanlie Retief

Magenge, We Need to Talk

Melusi Tshabalala

Now You Know How Mapetla Died

Zikhona Valela

Kyk na my

Nataniël

The Legend of Zola Mahobe and the Mamelodi Sundowns Story

Don Lepati, Nikolaos Kirkinis

Into Dark Water: A Police Memoir

Jeremy Vearey

Out of Quatro

Luthando Dyasop

How I Took Back My Power

Nompumelelo Runji

Robert

Robert Hamblin

Whitey: Sakereus van Shoprite

Niel Joubert

Andile Gaelesiwe: Remembering

Andile Gaelesiwe

Robert McBride: The Struggle Continues

Bryan Rostron

The Scholarship Kids

Robert Gentle

The Girl Who Survived Her Mother

Moshitadi Lehlomela

Smacked

Melinda Ferguson

Becoming a Doctor

Hloni Bookholane

Witnessing

Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase

Hooked

Melinda Ferguson

Zephany (A)

Joanne Jowell

I am Ella

Joanne Jowell

Yellow and Confused

Ming-Cheau Lin

GiGi

GiGi

Lansdowne dearest

Bronwyn Davids

Putco Mafani: The Price and Prize of Greatness

Putco Mafani

Zephany (E)

Joanne Jowell

Derick Hougaard

Brenden Nel

The Lockdown Collection

Melinda Ferguson

ZWELETHU

Jaki Seroke

Clare: The killing of a gentle activist

Christopher Clark

So You Want to Build a Startup

Matthew Buckland

Statues and Storms

Max Price

Meditating with Rhinos

Helena Kriel

Comrade Editor

Gwen Lister

Look At Me

Nataniël

Die kind se naam is Anneke

Juliana Coetzer

Anton Rupert

Ebbe Dommisse

Heart of a Strong Woman

Xoliswa Nduneni-Ngema, Fred Khumalo

A Childhood Made Up: Living with my mother's madness

Brent Meersman

Ghetto Ninja

Nikolaos Kirkinis, Junior Khanye

Betting on a Darkie

Mteto Nyati

Whitey: The Rise and Rule of the Shoprite King

Niel Joubert

Kwanele, Enough!

Andy Kawa

Anton Rupert

Ebbe Dommisse

Takka Takka Bom Bom

Al Venter