Willem Steenkamp
Auteur de Borderstrike!: South Africa into Angola
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Taken in the QM Store at the Cape Town Highlanders (Castle, Cape Town) by me (John Dovey)
Œuvres de Willem Steenkamp
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- South Africa
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Membres
- 83
- Popularité
- #218,811
- Évaluation
- 4.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 22
- Langues
- 1
When first published in 1983, it sold out almost immediately. A reconstruction of the early “external operations” of the South West African/Namibian border war between 1978 and 1980, it remains a standard reference work to this day. This was a significant publishing event because it showed how the nature of the border war had changed irrevocably, from the occasional ad-hoc “hot pursuit” of SWAPO insurgents into a full-blown semi-conventional conflict. It heralded the shape of things to come, which was to culminate in the fierce later battles of 1988/89, when South Africans and UNITA slugged it out toe-to-toe with the Soviet-supported and led forces of the Angolan government (Cuban & Russian). Out of print for many years, “Borderstrike!” has long been a sought-after item among those interested in African wars. Now Just Done is able to publish a new edition. It contains all the material of the original, but adds new information, new chapters and many new postscripts and annotations.… (plus d'informations)