By Helmoed-Romer Heitman, Paul Hannon
This quantity written by way of Helmoed-Römer Heitman and illustrated through Paul Hannon examines the historical past of recent African wars in South-West Africa. The author's authoritative textual content is followed by way of a wealth of up to date pictures and maps and the data is damaged down into numerous targeted chapters together with an summary of the area within the 1960s-80s, a normal chronology, the South African Defence strength, Angolan Forces, Swapo, exterior Operations, help for Unita and unique plate commentaries.
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