Combat: South Africa at war along the Angolan frontier
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| Beschreibung: | xxvi, 344 Seiten, xxiv Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß und farbig), Karten, Portraits 25 cm |
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Contents Acknowledgements Prologue: South African ‘Battle of Britain’ Legends Introduction viii x xx 1 2 3 4 5 6 27 46 62 79 94 Portugal: End of the Line in Africa A Contrasting View of South Africa’s Border War An Intrusive Operational Backdrop - Given to an Erstwhile Soviet Adversary The Ratel - Infantry Combat Vehicle Extraordinary South African Air Force’s Own ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Angola’s War in the Air: A Commanding Perspective from the late Lieutenant General Denis Earp 7 32 Battalion Special Forces Missions 8 The Boys on Their Bikes on the Border 9 Claims and Reality about South African Air Losses in Angola 10 What Happened to South Africa’s Secret Atom Bomb Project? 11 Stoking the Forge of Fire: South Africa’s Medium Range ICBM Programme 12 Operation Askari: Angola and Its Cuban Allies Take a Beating 13 How Washington Viewed Angola’s Transition 104 119 132 143 164 184 199 215 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 227 242 252 262 271 281 295 307 316 331 Unita and the Post Independent Phase in Angola Veteran of Africa’s Skies: The Venerable Douglas Dakota Russia’s ‘Twin Terrors’: The Mi֊17 Hip and the Mi-24 Hind Chopper Gunship Buccaneer Rescue Mission off the West African Coast, 1965 South Africa’s ‘Olifant’ Main Battle Tank: Bloodied in the Angolan War The Arthur Walker Story The Ubiquitous RPG-7: A Formidable Soviet Offensive Weapon Puma Helicopter Operations Covert Communications During South Africa’s Border War A Few of the Portuguese Special Forces Who Served the SADF with Distinction 338 Index vii
AL J. VENTER FRIENDS
ISBN 978-1-911628-73-6 9781911628736 HELION Ог COMPANY OL 9 " 781911 м 628736
Al Venter's latest book on South Africa's 23-year Border War along the Angolan frontier offers a host of new perspectives. These include details about units like the South African Air Force 44 Squadron which converted Dakota aircraft into flying gun platforms similar to those used in America's war in South-East Asia. He also has American nuclear specialist David Albright - one of the leading authorities on nuclear proliferation - take a long hard look at Pretoria's atom bomb program. Elsewhere he deals with the medium-range intercontinental ballistic missile programme that was developed (with Israeli help) in conjunction with building the bomb. Most salient, Venter takes a fresh look at the enemies that were ranged against the SADF, and in particular how SWAPO guerrillas fared. They were obviously a gutsy, welltrained and well-motivated guerrilla force to have survived almost a quarter century of hostilities: indeed, as an insurgent force they were streets ahead of other guerrilla groups such as those who fought the Portuguese and the Rhodesians. Combatwise, South Africa's ANC military wing does not even begin to compare. There is also, within more than 20 chapters written either by the author or by specialist friends - a fascinating chapter on covert communications during the war which stretched almost all the way across Africa and into the Indian Ocean. Another chapter looks at what gave the six-wheeled 'thinskinned' Ratel Infantry Combat Vehicle the ability to tackle Soviet main battle tanks in combat during the course of several Angolan conventional bush war battles and
thrash them, a world first that remains unbeaten.
Al Venter and his wife Tillie Harris, aka Gabriela, at Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts. Al Venter has covered many wars in a career that spans halfa century. In the process he has written 50-something books, had many 'close encounters', been wounded twice but in retrospect, reckons he would not have wanted it any other way. Al's books cover, amongst others, the war against al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), al-Shabaab in Somalia, historical wars like Biafra, El Salvador, the Lebanese civil war and others, but most notably how both South Africa and Portugal fought their guerrilla struggles in Africa. He is a specialist in weapons of mass destruction: his latest title in this field is Nuclear Terror, to be followed by a book in conjunction with an internationally renowned Israeli scientist on chemical and biological warfare. Al Venter has published nine titles on the realm of the underwater, including free-diving with sharks and uncovering shipwrecks and their treasures. HELION Or COMPANY OC |
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