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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pombo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pathfinder Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Africa, Southern > History > 1975-
Cold War > Political aspects > Africa, Southern.
Africa, Southern > Politics and government > 1975-1994.
Africa, Southern > Foreign relations > 1975-1994.
Africa, Southern > History > Autonomy and independence movements.
Angola > History > Civil War, 1975-2002 > Participation, Cuban.
Angola > Military relations > Cuba.
Cuba > Military relations > Angola.
Table of Contents:
  • Our internationalism in Africa was born with the Cuban Revolution
  • Fall of Portuguese empire and defeat of South Africa's first invasion, 1975-76
  • UNITA and South Africa: The irregular war, 1976-87
  • The battle of Cangamba
  • Cuito Cuanavale, Calueque, and defeat of the apartheid regime, 1987-91
  • Internationalist missions in Ethiopia and Mozambique
  • `Fidel's leadership was decisive.'