Bibliograph

The War for Africa, Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent

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The War for Africa, Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The War for Africa

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent

Summary

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. This classic account of a Cold War struggle and its momentous consequences for the participants and across the continent, is released in a new edition with a new preface and epilogue

Target audience

adult

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