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Dogtag Memories: Misadventures of an SADF Conscript
ISBN: 9781776392704
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Dogtag Memories: Misadventures of an SADF Conscript
- Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
- Published: 2026
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781776392704
- Dimensions: 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1 cm
- Weight: 0.454 kg
- Synopsis: Dogtag Memories is a raw, darkly humorous memoir that follows Jon Goetzsche���s chaotic journey through South Africa���s military machine. Drafted into the Defence Force in 1977 as a carefree seventeen-year-old, Jon���s tranquil schooldays are abruptly replaced by the brutal regimentation of army life. What begins as naive indifference soon spirals into a struggle against authority, misfortune and the absurdities of war. After surviving the gruelling training to become a Parabat, Jon is court-martialled for assaulting a fellow soldier and sent to Detention Barracks. Reassigned to an ordinary infantry battalion, he completes five months of training and is sent to the border for the rest of his two years��� national service, followed by several camps. Through the laughable rules, harsh punishment, grinding boredom, fatal mishaps and clashes with enemy guerrillas, he endures with wit, irony and a stubborn refusal to surrender his humanity. After surviving the gruelling training to become a Parabat, Jon is court-martialled for assaulting a fellow soldier and sent to Detention Barracks. Reassigned to an ordinary infantry battalion, he completes five months of training and is sent to the border for the rest of his two years��� national service, followed by several camps. Through the laughable rules, harsh punishment, grinding boredom, fatal mishaps and clashes with enemy guerrillas, he endures with wit, irony and a stubborn refusal to surrender his humanity.
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