Edward George

The Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965-1991

From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first complete study of Cuban involvement in the Angolan War, from the first contacts in the 1960s to the full-scale military occupation of the 1980s

Produktdetails

• Cass Military Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 240mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780415350150
• ISBN-10: 0415350158
• Artikelnr.: 22517259

Autorenporträt

Edward George was born and raised in London, and read Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Bristol. In 1996 Bristol awarded him a scholarship to carry out a PhD in Cuban and Angolan history, and this book is the result of the eight years of research which followed. During that time he lived in Havana for over a year, and travelled for six months around South Africa and Angola, visiting some of the remotest parts of the war zone. Dr George is the Cape Verde author for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and is a freelance writer on the politics, economics and history of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Internationalism in the Cuban Revolution and the Birth of the Alliance
with the MPLA 2. The Cuban mission to Brazzaville and the Collapse of the
Alliance 3. The Carnation Revolution & the failure of Angola's
Decolonisation 4. Operations Savannah and Carlota 5. 'The Second Liberation
War' 6. The Failed Withdrawal From Angola 7. 'The People's War': Cuban
internationalists in Angola 8. Abortive Peace Negotiations and the path to
full-scale war 9. The Big Offensives 10. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale 11.
The Fighting in Southwest Angola and the Negotiating End-Game 12. The sting
in the tail: the withdrawal from Angola the Ochoa case & the start of the
'Special Period' Conclusion