The War for Africa

A “gripping” story of the Angolan Civil War and how it evolved into a Cold War struggle between superpowers ( New York Journal of Books ). Lasting over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002, the Angolan Civil War began as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA—but became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa, and the United States. This book examines the height of the Cuban-South African fighting in Angola in 1987