Al J. Venter

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Shadow of Terror over The Sahel, from 2007

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 has been on the go for six years in West Africa under the acronym of AQIM, or al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Produktdetails

• A History of Terror
• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781526728739
• ISBN-10: 1526728737
• Artikelnr.: 50694969

Autorenporträt

Al J. Venter is a specialist military writer and has had 50 books published. He started his career with Geneva's Interavia Group, then owners of International Defence Review, to cover military developments in the Middle East and Africa. Venter has been writing on these and related issues such as guerrilla warfare, insurgency, the Middle East and conflict in general for half a century. He was involved with Jane's Information Group for more than 30 years and was a stringer for the BBC, NBC News (New York) as well as London's Daily Express and Sunday Express. He branched into television work in the early 1980s and produced more than 100 documentaries, many of which were internationally flighted. His one-hour film, 'Africa's Killing Fields' (on the Ugandan civil war), was shown nationwide in the United States on the PBS network. Other films include an hour-long program on the fifth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, as well as 'AIDS: The African Connection', nominated for China's Pink Magnolia Award. His last major book was 'Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa', nominated in 2013 for New York's Arthur Goodzeit military history book award. It has gone into three editions, including translation into Portuguese.