Paul L. Moorcraft

Total Onslaught (eBook, ePUB)

War and Revolution in Southern Africa Since 1945

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A history of the challenges to colonial rule in South Africa, with analysis of the civil wars and wars for independence in the years following WWII. The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved, civil wars between rival factions unfamiliar with democratic principles resulted. Liberation movements such as those in South Africa demanded self-rule and end to Apartheid. Tribal feuds, corruption and the ambitions of dictators led to more conflicts such as the protracted fighting in the Congo. These were wars that ran on until both sides were exhausted often only to be re-kindled after short periods of uneasy peace. The cost in human and material terms has been devastating and in too many cases remain so. Economic development has been frustrated and the result is often poverty, abuse and genocide. Author Paul Moorcraft knows Southern Africa as a native is superbly equipped to tell this fascinating if tragic record.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Military
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526704900
• Artikelnr.: 54790442

Autorenporträt

Professor Paul Moorcraft has frontline experience reporting on over 20 years, from A-Z, to Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, as a correspondent for print, radio and TV for nearly 40 years. He is currently Visiting Professor at Cardiff University and Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London.