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The War for Africa: 12 Months That Transformed a Continent
Fred Bridgland
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Description for The War for Africa: 12 Months That Transformed a Continent
Hardback. The story of the Cuban-South African war in Angola in 1987-88 through the eyes of the South Africans who fought in it. Num Pages: 360 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1HFMA; 3JJP; HBJH; HBTW; HBWS; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002. Beginning as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA, it became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa and the USA. This book examines the height of the Cuban-South African fighting in Angola in 1987-88, when 3,000 South African soldiers and about 8,000 UNITA guerrilla fighters fought in alliance against the Cubans and the armed forces of the Marxist MPLA government, a force of over 50,000 men. Bridgland pieced together the course of the ... Read more
The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002. Beginning as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA, it became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa and the USA. This book examines the height of the Cuban-South African fighting in Angola in 1987-88, when 3,000 South African soldiers and about 8,000 UNITA guerrilla fighters fought in alliance against the Cubans and the armed forces of the Marxist MPLA government, a force of over 50,000 men. Bridgland pieced together the course of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781612004921
SKU
V9781612004921
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Ref
99-47
About Fred Bridgland
Fred Bridgland, a graduate of St Andrew's University, is a British veteran foreign correspondent and author. He has reported on wars in India, Pakistan, the Middle East and Africa. In 1975 his discovery of South Africa's secret US-engineered invasion of Angola uncovered the CIA's involvement in one of Africa's longest wars, and was a world scoop. He has written a ... Read more
Reviews for The War for Africa: 12 Months That Transformed a Continent
Re-issued with a revised preface and interesting epilogue, this book has to be in the library of anyone who is interested in the minutiae of the war in Angola and the impact of the Cold War in Africa.
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Miniature Wargames - Paul Jackson
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