War in Angola : the final South African phase / Helmoed-Römer Heitman

By:

Heitman, Helmoed-Römer

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Gibraltar : Ashanti Publishing, 1990Description: 368 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cmISBN:

0-620-14370-3

Subject(s):

Movimento Popular de Liberaçao de Angola (MPLA), UNITA - Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola, South West Africa Territory Force, SWATF, South African Defence Force, SADF, South African Air Force, South West Africa People's Organisation, SWAPO, United Nations Organisation, UNO
Armed forces
South ; Africa/; Angolan war; South ; Africa/; Namibian war; War history; Negotiations; Liberation war; Liberation struggle

DDC classification:

IRL 968.8103 HEI

Summary: In August of 1987, South Africa sent a force into south-eastern Angola in support of Unita. When the last South African soldier crossed the Kavango river to return to South West Africa on the 1st of September 1988, this force had irrevocably changed the strategic situation in the region. The campaign that followed shifted the future of the region from the battlefield to the negotiation table. It accomplished in less than 12 months what years of intensive diplomacy failed to achieve; the future of the region was now to be settled by word rather than by shot and shell.

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Abbreviations Introduction Appendices Includes index

In August of 1987, South Africa sent a force into south-eastern Angola in support of Unita. When the last South African soldier crossed the Kavango river to return to South West Africa on the 1st of September 1988, this force had irrevocably changed the strategic situation in the region. The campaign that followed shifted the future of the region from the battlefield to the negotiation table. It accomplished in less than 12 months what years of intensive diplomacy failed to achieve; the future of the region was now to be settled by word rather than by shot and shell.

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