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Condizione: Very Good. 1759068332. 9/28/2025 2:05:32 PM.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Profusely illustrated with colour black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Black and white full-page map of Angola to the fore. Black and white 'Political Africa' map-illustrated front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Near fine in brown boards with white titles to the spine. Edges of boards rubbed. No inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean and bright. Spine tight. In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. No tears. No fading. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. ***238mm x 154mm. 403 pages including index to rear. ***'Before Southern Africa's peace there came the war. Between August 1987 and July 1988 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, the South African Defence Force, Angolan government forces directed by Soviet officers and Angolan opposition guerrilla army trained by Red China, France and the United States clashed in the biggest land battles in the history of black Africa. It was a fierce collision of ideologies and of modern warplanes, missiles and tanks across one of the world's most remote and undeveloped terrains known to Angola's former Portuguese colonial rulers as the Land at the Ends of the Earth. thousands of men died and thousands more were terribly maimed, Weapons and ammunition worth billions of dollars were destroyed and expended. The Angolan economy was crippled. The budgets of Cuba, South Africa and the Soviet Union were subjected to terrible strains. ***It was a War for Africa's very soul. It culminated in a peace agreement, the New York Accords, signed on 22 December 1988, which have already proved as momentously important for Africa as the 1945 Yalta Agreement between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill was for post-war Europe. ***The reader will learn what it is like to encounter an advanced Soviet MiG fighter in a french Mirage warplane 30,000 feet above the forests of Africa; what emotions grip a reconnaissance commando lying unseen inside Cuban lines within feet of enemy soldiers; how it feels in an armoured car to face a soviet T-55 tank at just 30 feet in burning bush and swirling dust and smoke. ***This is, however, far more than just an account of men in battle. Woven through are details of the political background to the conflict and the diplomatic initiatives which governed the lives and deaths of young Cuban, South African and Angolan men at the front. It is, all in all, a story of African fighting on an unprecedented scale, the international intrigue spanning several continents, and the new opportunities it opened up for democracy to 100 million people in five countries. It is a factual account which makes existing novels about derring-do in Africa seem unimaginable.' (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper). ***'Fred Bridgeland is one of Britain's most experienced foreign correspondents. He is currently Southern African correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph. Earlier he was a Reuter correspondent based in New Delhi, Beirut and Lusaka. While based in the Zambian capital he obtained a world scoop on South Africa's 1975 secret US-engineered invasion of Angola: the chief of the American CIA Angolan Task Force said Bridgeland's report destroyed the intelligence agency's operation "in one stroke." Bridgeland subsequently joined The Scotsman, Scotland's national newspaper, for which he reported on European affairs from Brussels before becoming diplomatic correspondent based in London. ---***Bridgeland's work has also appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek Magazine, The Times of London, The Sunday Times of London, the Johannesburg Star, The Economist, the Spectator and Neue Zuercher Zeitung. (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the extremely hard to find true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very nice, bright, collectable condition.***.