Cuba & Angola : the war for freedom /
Beginning in 1975, an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa's white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded Angola. Its goal was to impose a government beholden...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pathfinder Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Beginning in 1975, an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa's white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded Angola. Its goal was to impose a government beholden to Pretoria and imperialism. Angola's government appealed for help. The response of Cuba's leadership was immediate and decisive. A hard-fought war for freedom ended in 1988 at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, with the crushing defeat of South Africa's army by Angolan, Cuban and Namibian combatants. This is the story of Cuba's unparalleled contribution to the fight to free Africa from the scourge of apartheid. And how, in the doing, Cuba's socialist revolution also was strengthened. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 121 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1604880937 9781604880939 |