THE WAR FOR AFRICA - Fred Bridgeland

Ashanti, 1990 (first edition). Hardcover with dustcover, 403 pages.

Very good condition. Small stain (20mm) on page before title page. Tightly bound and neat.

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 war, fought in one of the worlds most remote and wild terrains, by interviewing the South Africans who fought it, and many of their accounts are woven into the narrative.