{"product_id":"the-war-for-africa-twelve-months-that-transformed-a-continent","title":"The War for Africa: Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent","description":"The story of the Cuban-South African war in Angola in 1987–88 through the eyes of the South Africans who fought in it.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nTable of Contents\n\nPreface\nPrologue\n\nPART 1: GENERAL SHAGANOVITCH’S OFFENSIVE\nThe Prelude\nThe South Africans move in\nSniffing out the enemy\nFapla’s advance continues\n\nPART 2: THE DEFENCE\nSouth Africa steps things up\nSouth Africa’s first disaster\nEnter the Falcon\nThe first land battle\nThe Second ‘Rumble on the Lomba’\n\nPART 3: THE STING\nWaiting and watching\nRecce hardships\nThe Air Force gears up\nWar in the air\nLaying the trap\nFancy tricks and dirty tricks\nThe Cavalry – 61 Mech – rides to the rescue\nSoftening up 47 Brigade\nThe trap closes\nThe destruction of 47 Brigade\nBooty from the battlefield\nFapla’s offensive ends\n\nPART 4: THE STALEMATE\nForward beyond the Lomba\nThe reinforcements arrive\n\nPART 5: THE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE\nThe attack on 16 Brigade\n‘Destroy the G-5S!’\nFapla’s Great Escape: The Chambinga Gallop\n\nPART 6: THE SIDESHOW\nBegging for permission to destroy the enemy\n\nPART 7: INTO 1988. OPERATION HOOPER – THE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE CONTINUED\nThe attack on 21 Brigade: 13 January 1988\nThrowing something at the Cuito River Bridge\nThe attack on 59 Brigade: 14 February 1988\nThe attack on Highpoint 1251\n\nPART 8: THE SIDESHOW (CONTINUED)\nThe attack on Menongue\n\nPART 9: THE THREE BATTLES FOR THE TUMPO TRIANGLE\nMike Muller leads the First Tumpo Attack: 25 February 1988\nMike Muller leads the Second Tumpo Attack: 29 February 1988\nJaw-jaw begins to supplant war-war\nGerhard Louw leads the Third Tumpo Attack: 23 March 1988\n\nPART 10: THE DENOUEMENT\nMore jaw-jaw\nFidel’s last hurrah!\n\nEpilogue\nPostscript: UNITA\nTimeline\nGlossary\nSelect Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 161200492X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.161200492X.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bridgland, Fred\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41518811611194,"sku":"DBV.161200492X.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/161200492X-0.jpg?v=1783914853","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-war-for-africa-twelve-months-that-transformed-a-continent","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}