Layout Table~~~~12390~12390~~

A Long Nights Damage~Very hard to find - scarce. An increasingly elusive title.~~~12390~12391~~

A Long Night’s Damage: Working for the Apartheid State - Col. Eugene de Kock as told to Jeremy Gordin~On 30 April 1993 Colonel Eugene de Kock was discharged from the South African Police ahead of further investigations into his activities as head of the Security Police's section C1 at the notorious Vlakplaas Farm north of Pretoria. By then the ruling National Party was engaged in a massive damage control exercise. Many officers of the Security Forces as well as De Kock himself were being eyed as possible scapegoats.As it transpired at his trial, De Kock was the government's chief assassin.
But De Kock was not an put-of-control policeman, he was an officer acting under orders. In this book he names the men who gave him orders, what they ordered him to do and for what reasons. He lifts the curtain on a heinous period of South African history when the architects of apartheid thought that any means justified their ends.
But Colonel Eugene de Kock is not going to lie down and say nothing. This book lays out in great detail the corruption and moral decadence that pervaded the SADF and the Police. There are still many whose crimes against humanity were just as terrible as his own. Now De Kock tells his story: the one that the politicians and the generals had been hoping would never appear.
ISBN 0-620-22198-4 1998. Softback. 332pp; 220 X 149mm; b/w pics.

Book condition: General wear and creases to the boards. Damage to back cover/ corner - chew marks (dog?). Otherwise the book is tightly bound and internally clean.
Book location: UK~~A Long Night%27s Damage|X ISBN 0620221984C|~12390~12728~A Long Night’s Damage, Colonel Eugene de Kock, Vlakplaas Security Police C1,~