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      Africa: In the Line of Fire

      Al J Venter

      An exploration of how Jihadist forces are responsible for instigating and escalating conflicts in countries across Africa.

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      Portugal’S Bush War in Mozambique

      Al J. Venter

      A new account of how Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique for over a decade.

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      Shipwreck Stories

      Al J. Venter

      This book covers scores of shipwrecks - East Indiamen, warships from before and after the Napoleonic era, nineteenth-century steamships, trawlers, some modern freighters that courted disaster, whalers and a handful…

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      War Stories

      Al J. Venter

      Venter’s choice of military events is eclectic. He has four chapters on Afghanistan, three on Somalia, several on how Lisbon fought its desperate rearguard colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and…

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      Shark Stories

      Al J. Venter

      Al Venter has been free-diving (without cages) with sharks for fourty years and has had three of his friends killed by them. The international author known for his war writing…

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      Biafra’S War 1967-1970: A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead

      Al J. Venter

      Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women…

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      El Salvador: Dance of the Death Squads, 1980 1992

      Al J. Venter

      The El Salvador conflict remains a classic example of how a communist insurgency or any other popular large-scale revolution, including those launched by al-Qaeda or ISIS can be defeated.

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      Angolan War of Liberation: Colonial-Communist Clash, 1961-1974

      Al J. Venter

      The story of how an ailing colonial power comprehensively defeated a communist-inspired insurgency.

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      Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970

      Al J. Venter

      Latest edition to the Cold War series, this time focussing on The Biafra War.

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      The Last of Africa’s Cold War Conflicts: Portuguese Guinea and its Guerilla Insurgency

      Al J Venter

      Set against the back-drop of the Cold War, Al Venter examines the Soviet-led guerrilla conflict in Portuguese Guinea which sought to expel the Portuguese colonials over a brutal 10-year war…

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      Lebanon

      Al J. Venter

      Al Venter was rarely conventional in his approach to problems encountered in the Middle East.

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      Somalia

      Al J. Venter

      Al-Qaeda, through its surrogate insurgent force al-Shabaab remains a major player in Somalia, receiving its support from Iran, today a close ally of the Russians

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      Nuclear Terror: The Bomb and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Wrong Hands

      Al J. Venter

      Al Venter is a recognised expert in recent military history, particularly on nuclear weapons. In Nuclear Terror, he assesses the developments over the past 10 years of different countries in…

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      Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Shadow of Terror over The Sahel, from 2007

      Al J. Venter

      Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere-the majority linked to al Qaeda-are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very little surfaces about a festering insurgency that…

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      Takka Takka Bom Bom

      Al J Venter

      The world's oldest still-active war correspondent shares the real stories behind half a century of headlines from the front lines.

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      Portugal’S Guerilla Wars in Africa: Lisbon’S Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portugese Guinea 1961-74

      Al J. Venter

      Portugal’s three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guine-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are…

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      Biafra’S War 1967-1970: A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead

      Al J. Venter

      Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended, but memories die hard. Biafra’s war was modern Africa’s first extended conflict & lasted almost three years.

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      Battle for Angola: The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

      Al J. Venter

      A detailed examination of the events before and after the Battle of Angola, with several chapters covering the colonial struggle between Africa and Portugal.

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      Gunship Ace: The Wars of Neall Ellis, Gunship Pilot and Mercenary

      Al J. Venter

      A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action from the 1970s, Neall Ellis is the best-known mercenary combat aviator alive. This book describes his full career, from the…

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      African stories by Al J.Venter and friends

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      Al Venter regards himself an African - a ‘white’ African, but as much a part of the fascinating and often troubled continent on which he was born as his Zulu…

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      South Africa’s Border War 1966-89

      Willem Steenkamp

      Of all the books about South Africa’s 21-year ‘Border War’ - fought on both sides of Angola’s frontier with present-day Namibia - South Africa’s Border War has always been rated…

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      As the Crow Flies: My Bushman Experience with 31 Battalion

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      As a relatively recent military campaign, Operation Savannah entered the annals of South African military tradition four decades ago.

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      South Africa’s Border War 1966-89

      Willem Steenkamp

      Of all the books about South Africa’s 21-year ‘Border War’ - fought on both sides of Angola’s frontier with present-day Namibia - this book has always been rated as among…

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      Sierra Leone: Revolutionary United Front: Blood Diamonds, Child Soldiers and Cannibalism, 1991-2002

      Venter, Al J

      Outlines the cause and effect of Sierra Leone’s eleven-year guerrilla war - that left 200,000 people dead.

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