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  1. “Almost entirely a medical war”: The South African Medical Corps in East Africa, 1940–1941

    Article • December 2024, De Gruyter

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  2. Crime in prisoner-of-war camps in Europe 1939-1945

    Article • South African Historical Journal, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  3. Internment of civilians during World War 1

    Article • Immigrants & Minorities, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  4. Work of the South African military doctors in East Africa during the Second World War

    Article • International Journal of Military History and Historiography, June 2023, De Gruyter

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  5. South African Manpower and the Second World War

    Article • June 2021, Cornell University Press

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  6. 12. South African Manpower and the Second World War

    Article • June 2021, De Gruyter

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  7. Appendix: A Select Guide to Published South African Soldier Narratives of the Second World War

    Article • December 2020, Sun Media Bloemfontein Pty Ltd

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  8. Sights, Sounds, Memories: South African Soldier Experiences of the Second World War

    Article • December 2020, Sun Media Bloemfontein Pty Ltd

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  9. Photo Section: Sights, Sounds, Memories

    Article • December 2020, Sun Media Bloemfontein Pty Ltd

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  10. Literary imaginings: Personal narratives and the ‘Springbok Tale’?

    Article • December 2020, Sun Media Bloemfontein Pty Ltd

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  11. Introduction: Wars are fought, and lived, by real people

    Article • December 2020, Sun Media Bloemfontein Pty Ltd

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  12. Eric Axelson and the History of the Sixth SA Armoured Division in Italy, 1943–1945

    Article • December 2020, Sun Media Bloemfontein Pty Ltd

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  13. In Different Times: The War for Southern Africa 1966-1989

    Article • November 2019, Sun Media Bloemfontein Pty Ltd

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  14. Afrikaner Odyssey: The Life and Times of the Reitz Family

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, January 2019, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  15. In Memoriam: Prof Jeffrey Grey, 1959-2016

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2017, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  16. Recording the Great War: military archives and the South African official history programme, 1914-1939

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2017, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  17. A MILITARY HISTORY OF MODERN SOUTH AFRICA

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, November 2015, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  18. South African defence in the age of total war, 1900-1940

    Article • Historia, January 2015, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  19. The battle of Sandfontein, 26 September 1914: South African military reform and the German South-West Africa campaign, 1914–1915

    Article • First World War Studies, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  20. All splendid, but horrible: The Politics of South Africa’s Second “Little Bit” and the War on the Western Front, 1915-1918

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2013, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  21. Between history, amnesia and selective memory: The South African armed forces, a century’s perspective

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2013, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  22. A HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE FORCE INSTITUTE (SADFI) 1916 - 1991

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  23. ALLIED MILITARY CURRENCY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR; A STUDY IN EMERGENCY PAPER MONEY

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  24. MILITARY RECORD PRESERVATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1914-1992 A HISTORY OF DIRECTORATE DOCUMENTATION SERVICE

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  25. SOUTH AFRICA'S FLYING CHEETAHS IN KOREA

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  26. SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY WHO'S WHO, 1452-1992

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  27. VERZET IN WEST -FRIESLAND: DE ILLEGALITEIT IN WESTERLIJK WESTFRIESLAND EN IN DE WIERINGERMEER IN DE JAREN 1940-'45

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  28. COLONEL (DR) JAN PLOEGER (1913-1994)

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  29. MAJOR J.G.W. LEIPOLDT, D.S.O. : A PORTRAIT OF A SOUTH AFRICAN SURVEYOR AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, 1912-1923

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  30. ON WINGS OF EAGLES; SOUTH AFRICA'S MILITARY AVIATION HISTORY

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  31. SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WAR IN ASIA MINOR 1920-1923

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  32. THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN FRANCE

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  33. THE HOPES AT WAR IN THE 18TH CENTURY

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  34. BIBLIORAPHICAL GUIDE TO SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE, 1912-1995

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  35. MILITARY NURSING IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1914-1994

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  36. OCEAN BRIDGE; THE HISTORY OF THE RAF FERRY COMMAND

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  37. Victory in Europe

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  38. Editorial

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  39. TIlE FORTS OF THE LIESBEECK FRONTIER

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  40. A Century's Perspective

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  41. The Union Defence Force Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1940

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  42. BATTLES IN BRITAIN AND THEIR POLITICAL BACKGROUND, 1066-1746

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  43. Editorial

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  44. Re-fighting the 2nd Anglo-Boer War: historians in the trenches

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  45. An Australian war correspondent in Ladysmith: The siege report of Donald Macdonald of the Melbourne Argus

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  46. Van Ryneveld vs Blaine: the UDFI as a civil-military relations football, 1939-1945

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, February 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  47. Angolan Civil Wars (1975–2002)

    Article • November 2011, Wiley

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  48. THE TRANSVAAL REBELLION: THE FIRST BOER WAR 1880-1881/JOHN LABAND

    Article • Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies, August 2011, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  49. Life in a South African Household, 1909–1923: Changing Patterns in Leisure and Servitude

    Article • South African Review of Sociology, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  50. Smuts’s Generals: Towards a First Portrait of the South African High Command, 1912-1948

    Article • War in History, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  51. ‘The Thin Edge of the Wedge’: Anglo-South African Relations, Dominion Nationalism and the Formation of the Seaward Defence Force in 1939–1940

    Article • Contemporary British History, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  52. Chapter Eleven. Rural Struggles And The Politics Of A Colonial Command: The Southern Mounted Rifles Of The Transvaal Volunteers, 1905–1912

    Article • January 2010, Brill

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  53. Wyndhams, Parktown, 1901-1923: Domesticity and Servitude in an Early Twentieth-Century South African Household

    Article • Journal of Family History, July 2007, SAGE Publications

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  54. Ordinary Springboks: White Servicemen and Social Justice in South Africa, 1939-1961 (review)

    Article • The Journal of Military History, October 2006, Project Muse

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  55. Boer Generalship and the Politics of Command

    Article • War in History, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  56. Hugh Wyndham, Transvaal Politics and the Attempt to Create an English Country Seat in South Africa, 1901–14

    Article • November 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  57. The British World

    Article • November 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  58. Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987 (review)

    Article • The Journal of Military History, October 2004, Project Muse

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  59. Hugh Wyndham, Transvaal politics and the attempt to create an English country seat in South Africa, 1901–14

    Article • The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, May 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  60. Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds

    Article • The Journal of Military History, April 2002, JSTOR

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  61. The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program

    Article • The Journal of Military History, January 2002, JSTOR

    Prof Ian van der Waag

  62. BOOK REVIEWS

    Article • African Security Review, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Ian van der Waag