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    Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler
    Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler
    Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler
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    Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler

    By Colin D. Heaton, Anne-Marie Lewis and John H. Roberts

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    This “fascinating” biography of a South African-born warrior provides a window into a full century of military conflicts(Adam Makos, New York Times–bestselling author of A Higher Call).
     
    Four-War Boer traces Pieter Krueler’s highly colorful life from the Second Boer War, where he first served as a fourteen-year-old scout, to his service in World War I with the German army in East Africa to the Spanish Civil War to World War II, this time with the Allies, and on into the latter part of the twentieth century, when he served as a mercenary during the 1960s Congo Crisis. Later, in his eighties, he became a civilian trainer for the original Selous Scouts of Rhodesia and, later still, a trainer for South African commandos.
     
    The book follows Krueler through a remarkable career that included, among other adventures, leading native African soldiers on extremely dangerous missions in the Belgian Congo; volunteering as a mercenary during the Spanish Civil War, during which he worked with the Pyrenees Basque movement; serving as a coast watcher to keep South Africa safe from German incursion; and fighting alongside Michael Hoare during the 1960s Congo Crisis. A chapter is devoted to the formation of Rhodesia’s highly elite Selous Scouts, along with highlights of several previously classified missions. This material includes a wealth of new information, and breaks the secrecy surrounding Rhodesian and South African special operations, as unveiled through the experience of a man who was a founding father of counterinsurgency in Africa.
     
    Based on six years of historical research through hard-to-find secondary and published primary sources, as well as extensive interviews with Krueler himself, and interviews with German officers and others who knew and worked with him, this biography is filled with extensive first-person testimony that gives it the immediacy of a memoir.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasemate Publishers
    Release dateJan 19, 2014
    ISBN9781612001760
    Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler

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