SOUTH AFRICA AT WAR, 1939-1945, a Jacana pocket history

160 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2012

A brief account of South Africa's role in World War II, and of the impact the war had on the country.

Bill Nasson is a professor of history at the University of Stellenbosch. His other books include "Springboks on the Somme, South Africa and the Great War, 1914-1918" and "The War for South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902".