The War for Africa: Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent -Fred Bridgland 1st Edition
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The War for Africa: Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent -Fred Bridgland 1st Edition
This 1990 1st Edition is in Near Fine condition.. Protective plastic wrapped-No inscriptions or old cellotape marks. No Foxing. Contents clean clear and crisp.
The story of the Cuban-South African war in Angola in 1987-88 through the eyes of the South Africans who fought in it.
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 war, fought in one of the world's most remote and wild terrains, by interviewing the South Africans who fought it, and many of their accounts are woven into the narrative.
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