Part military history, part memoir, part exorcism… Norman McFarlane’s book is about his time as a ‘troopie’ during conscription, the war in Angola, and the travails of trying to fit back into a ‘normal life’ in the aftermath of an ideological war.
In this interview, Niki Moore talks to Norman about his yet-unpublished book. And then he reads the first chapter himself.
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Caption: The author on the right, in three-quarter profile at the train station in Silva Porto, Angola, where, on November 29 Battle Group X-Ray was entrained for transhipment through the night to Munhango, from where it moved to its first engagement.
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