TROOPSHIP MENDI, the black Titanic

274pp., illus., paperback, Worthing, 2016

A self-published history of the sinking of the British troopship, SS Mendi, in the English Channel in 1917, on the way to France. Six-hundred-and-sixteen South Africans, including six-hundred-and-seven black troops serving in the South African Native Labour Contingent, died - South Africa's biggest single loss of life in World War I. The findings of the inquiry into the incident were kept secret for fifty years.