32 Battalion: The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit is a book written by Piet Nortje.

At the end of 1993 a staff paper written by Major Walley Vrey, entitled The History of 32 Battalion, was supplied to Nortje.

He turned to Brigadier General Eddie Viljoen who immediately offered him assistance.

[2] The main roadblock for Nortje was that all the information regarding 32 Battalion was still classified, and without official records the book wouldn't be as accurate and complete as possible.

The information was spread over 2319 files, all stamped Top Secret at the Department of Defence Documentation Centre in Pretoria.