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Author : Douglas Reed
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Siege of Southern Africa written by Douglas Reed and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren Thompson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1776094743
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Bangui written by Warren Thompson and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2013, South Africa suffered its worst military defeat since the end of apartheid. After a battle that lasted almost two days, 200 crack troops who engaged 7 000 rebels in the Central African Republic were forced to negotiate a ceasefire at their base. Thirteen South African soldiers died in the battle, with two more later succumbing to their wounds. The mission was shrouded in mystery from the start. The deployment and the diplomatic machinations that led to it were kept secret from the South African public and Parliament. So, too, were an assortment of shadowy commercial interests held by businessmen, some with close ties to the African National Congress. In an investigation spanning more than seven years, the authors gained exclusive access to the soldiers who fought valiantly against overwhelming odds; travelled to Bangui to obtain documentation and meet the rebel leaders who took part in the battle; interviewed a deposed dictator living in exile in Paris; and spoke to the widows of the fallen soldiers. They also met influen¬tial fixers and dealmakers, and unearthed secret files containing bribe agreements to unravel an intricate web of corruption and patronage reaching the highest echelons of power in South Africa and the CAR. After close to a decade of speculation and rumour, The Battle of Bangui lays bare for the first time both the litany of strategic, tactical and logistical blunders that ended in military disaster, and the secret diplomatic and commercial deals that led to South Africa’s worst foreign misad¬venture of the democratic era. It’s also a cracking war story filled with heroism, camaraderie, terror, pathos and triumph over adversity.
Author : Peter Polack
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612001963
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War written by Peter Polack and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating chronicle of the Cold War battle where US and Soviet weapons, as well as Cuban and South African troops, took part in the Angolan Civil War. In the late 1980s, as America prepared to claim its victory in the Cold War over the Soviet Union, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The socialist Angolan government, stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out the resistance group UNITA, secretly supplied by the United States, in order to claim sovereignty. But as Angolan forces gained the upper hand, apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted the Angolans to call on their own foreign reinforcements—the army of Communist Cuba. Thus began the epic Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: an odd match-up of South African Boers against Castro’s armed forces. While South Africa was subject to an arms boycott since 1977, the Cuban and Angolan troops had the latest Soviet weapons. But UNITA had its secret US supply line, and the South Africans knew how to fight. As a case study of ferocious fighting between East and West, The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War unveils a remarkable episode in the endgame of the Cold War—one that is largely unknown to the American public.
Author : Tony Pinchuck
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858288536
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (885 download)
Download or read book South Africa written by Tony Pinchuck and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa is a country on the move, with more and more travelers making their way to this fascinating land. This Rough Guide covers all the major sights in South Africa, from Table Mountain to the wildlife of Kruger National Park, plus a few surprises in between. 16-page color wildlife guide. 60 maps & plans.
Author : Nicki von der Heyde
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775842037
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Guide to Sieges of South Africa written by Nicki von der Heyde and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion volume to the highly successful Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa, the pivotal sieges that characterised the Cape Frontier, Anglo-Zulu, Basotho and Anglo-Boer wars are brought together in one volume. Accounts of 17 sieges over the last two centuries explore in detail the historical context in which they occurred, the day-to-day military actions that sustained the investments and the conditions both soldiers and civilians faced while defending their territory against a hostile force. The siege descriptions are animated by maps, timelines and a variety of information boxes and human-interest stories, gleaned mainly from diaries, letters and eye-witness accounts, while long-form features focus on the practical aspects of siege warfare, such as artillery, medicine, food, and the psychological effects of besiegement. The book also provides practical information for visitors who wish to explore these historical sites. A fascinating read that will appeal to anyone interested in the volatile history of the country – armchair historians and travellers alike.
Author : Tim Couzens
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864866219
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Battles of South Africa written by Tim Couzens and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interesting selection of battles found to be in some way pertinent, and important in the often misunderstood South African military history.
Author : Shaun Johnson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253353955
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (539 download)
Download or read book South Africa written by Shaun Johnson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of contemporary South Africa focuses thematically on the major political contestants, interest-groups and power-brokers in that country. The book attempts to provide an introduction to aspects of contemporary South African politics and an insight into its many forms of resistance.
Author : Alexander Wilmot
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The History of South Africa written by Alexander Wilmot and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1901 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Dreyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317848292
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Namibia & Southern Africa written by Ronald Dreyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. This volume includes an examination the regional dynamics of Namibia's decolonization since early 1985 and the author’s interest in southwestern Africa since he witnessed the South African invasion of Angola in 1975/76 as a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The research was undertaken as part of a post-doctoral project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It also includes extensive research in the region, notably in the Frontline states.
Author : A. Wyatt Tilby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book South Africa, 1486-1913 written by A. Wyatt Tilby and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The President's Report on Progress Toward Ending Apartheid in South Africa and the Question of Future Sanctions written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Bridgland
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612004938
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The War for Africa written by Fred Bridgland and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gripping” story of the Angolan Civil War and how it evolved into a Cold War struggle between superpowers (New York Journal of Books). Lasting over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002, the Angolan Civil War began as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA—but became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa, and the United States. This book examines the height of the Cuban-South African fighting in Angola in 1987–88, when three thousand South African soldiers and about eight thousand UNITA guerrilla fighters fought in alliance against the Cubans and the armed forces of the Marxist MPLA government, a force of over fifty thousand men. Fred 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 stories are woven into the narrative. This classic account of a Cold War struggle and its momentous consequences for the participants and the continent now includes a new preface and epilogue. “Highlights just how much political and social considerations dictate the outcome of war . . . A highly detailed work of military history, The War for Africa can tell us a lot about the nature of counter-insurgency warfare and how small states can become contested battlegrounds between superpowers.” —New York Journal of Books
Author : John Seiler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000312364
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Southern Africa Since The Portuguese Coup written by John Seiler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980. Toward the end of 1975 the author decided to edit a collection of essays on political developments in Southern Africa. Regional events since the Portuguese coup in April 1974 had already made an enormous impact, first suggesting the possibilities of peaceful accommodation between South Africa and its neighbors, but then demonstrating the destructive impact in Angola of widespread international intervention (in the latter half of 1975). From 1975 to the present, events in Southern Africa have neared center stage in international attention, but, as these essays will show, outstanding regional differences are no closer to peaceful resolution in late 1979 than they were in early 1976.
Author : Leopold Stennett Amery
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Times History of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 written by Leopold Stennett Amery and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leopold Stennett Amery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Times History of the War in South Africa written by Leopold Stennett Amery and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Mendelssohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography written by Sidney Mendelssohn and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fodor's Travel Guides
Publisher : Fodor's Travel
ISBN 13 : 1640970150
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Fodor's Essential South Africa written by Fodor's Travel Guides and published by Fodor's Travel. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. Everything about Africa that stirs the imagination is concentrated in its southernmost country. Lions freely roam vast game reserves such as Kruger National Park; vineyards stretch across the Cape Winelands; and mountains cascade into the sea along miles of beaches. In addition to dream safaris and romantic honeymoons, South Africa offers modern cities with thriving arts and dining scenes. South Africans are welcoming, and the country’s emergence from a turbulent past provides a dramatic history lesson and the promise of something new every time you visit. This travel guide includes: •SAFARI PLANNING: Reviews of new safari camps, Safari-planning tips, and recommended tour companies •DISCERNING RECOMMENDATIONS:Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations, with Fodor's Choice designating our top picks •ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE contains a brief introduction and spectacular color photos that capture the ultimate experiences and attractions throughout South Africa •MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to help make the most of your time exploring the top attractions •INDISPENSABLE TRIP PLANNING TOOLS: Each chapter opens with an orientation spread that includes a map, short descriptions of each region, and the top reasons to go •COVERS: Cape Town, Cape Winelands, Johannesburg, Durban, The Garden Route, Kruger National Park, The Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Little Karoo, The Kalahari, The Sunshine Coast, The Drakensberg, Mpumalanga, Sabi Sand Looking specifically to plan a Safari trip? Check out Fodor’s The Complete Guide to African Safaris
