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Evert Kleynhans [MMil, PhD (Mil) (Stell)], is a senior lecturer in the Department of Military History at the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University. He is the editor of Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, as well as an Assistant Director of the Southern Africa Chapter of the Second World War Research Group. His primary research interests include the South African participation in both world wars, as well as low-intensity conflict in Southern Africa. He recently authored the books Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa (Jonathan Ball, 2021), and The Naval War in South African Waters, 1939-1945 (African Sun Media, 2022).