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Lädt ... The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil Warvon Peter Polack
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As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what U.S.-Soviet diplomats were otherwise spending in diplomacy.The socialist government of Angola and its army, FAPLA, fully stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out a massive resistance group, UNITA, secretly supplied by the U.S, in order to cl Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)967.304242History and Geography Africa Central Africa Angola 1975– 1979– (Administration of Jose Eduardo dos Santos)Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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