Battle for Angola: The End of the Cold War in Africa c. 1975-89

Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa — shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' — his Battle for Angola delves further still into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony.

For the sake of continuity, the author has included several chapters on that colonial struggle in this work, with the main thrust on events before and after — including the civil war that followed L...