Total Onslaught: War and Revolution in Southern Africa Since 1945

A history of the challenges to colonial rule in South Africa, with analysis of the civil wars and wars for independence in the years following WWII.

The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved, civil wars between rival factions unfamiliar...