The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War (Special Order ALLOW 5-7 Days) - Polack, Peter

South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War. As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the continent since El Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what U.S.-Soviet diplomats were otherwise spending in diplomacy. The socialist government of Angola and its army, FAPLA, fully stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out a massive resistance group, UNITA, secretly supplied by the U.S, in order to claim full sovereignty over the country. A giant FAPLA offensive so threatened to succeed in overcoming UNITA that apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests.

Softcover. English. 30 Degrees South . 2014. ISBN: 9781612002613. 232 pp. NEW. Book No: 2507447