Alexander Strachan 
1 Recce, volume 2 
Behind Enemy Lines

1 Recce: Behind Enemy Lines takes the reader into the ‘inner sanctum’ of one of the sharpest, most versatile and deadliest specialist units in the former South African Defence Force. In their own words, Recce operators recount some of the life-threatening operations they conducted under great secrecy in Angola, Rhodesia and Mozambique during the late 1970s. Operators sweat in aircraft or in submarines deep below the ocean’s surface. They brave crocodile-infested rivers in the dark of night. Recces place explosives in a train tunnel deep inside enemy territory and transform a large fuel storage facility in an Angolan port city into a fiery inferno. There were intense firefights, victories, but also losses . . . Those who were there give first-hand accounts of the tension, anticipation, fear, adrenalin, exhaustion, thirst and grief they experienced, but also of the humorous moments and the close bonds of friendship that were forged in situations of mortal danger. 1 Recce: Behind Enemy Lines is the award-winning author and former Recce Alexander Strachan’s sequel to his bestseller 1 Recce: The Night Belongs to Us.

عن المؤلف

Dr Alexander Strachan is an award-winning novelist from Harrismith in the eastern Free State. After studying languages at the then University of the Free State, he obtained his doctorate in Zulu at the University of Pretoria and became a full professor in African Languages. Strachan received the Eugène Marais Prize for his debut collection of short stories, ‘n Wêreld sonder grense (1984). His works include inter alia the novels Die jakkalsjagter (1990), which won first prize in the De Kat/Antenne Great Novel Competition, and Die werfbobbejaan (1994), for which he received the WA Hofmeyr Prize. He was again awarded the WA Hofmeyr Prize for literature for his novel Dwaalpoort (2010). His most recent novel, Brandwaterkom (2015), which deals with the Anglo-Boer War, won the kyk NET-Rapport Book Prize. War, and the Border War in particular, is a central theme in his oeuvre. 1 Recce: The Night Belongs to Us (2018) was his first nonfiction work. With that book, he returned once more to the Bush War and focused specifically on the history of 1 Recce and the unit’s role during this war. It found a ready market among diverse audiences worldwide and created an expectation for this sequel. The action-packed 1 Recce: Behind Enemy Lines is the second volume in the three-volume 1 Recce series. Strachan himself was a Recce.