Island at War

Concentrating on Robben Island but written against a background covering all the coastal gun batteries on the South African coastline, this book tells of the Coast Gunners themselves, the intrepid women who operated the range-finding and plotting instruments, the Women's Auxiliary Naval Service (SWANS) who watched over the anti-submarine fixed defences, the men of the Seaward Defence Forces who manned the degaussing depot, and the largely untold story of the hundreds of Coloured anti-aircraft gunners, coast gunners, and infantrymen trained on the Island who either formed part of its defences during the Japanese invasion threat or served up north with South African forces in North Africa. Soft cover, A4, 366 pages. Publisher: Naval Heritage Trust, Simon's Town.