Cuba & Angola
Subtitle: the war for freedom
By: Harry Villagas "Pombo" ; edited by Martín Koppel and Mary-Alice Waters
Contributors: Köppel, Martin, 1979- editor; Waters, Mary-Alice, 1942- editor
Publisher: Pathfinder Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781604880939
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: History; Cold War; Politics and government; Foreign relations; Autonomy and independence movements; Cuban Participation; Military relations
Other titles: Cuba and Angola : the war for freedom
Description: "Beginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa s white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded Angola. Its goal: to impose a government beholden to Pretoria and imperialism. Angola s government appealed for help. The response of Cuba s leadership was immediate and decisive. A hard-fought war for freedom ended in 1988 at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, with the crushing defeat of South Africa s army by Angolan, Cuban, and Namibian combatants. This is the story of Cuba s unparalleled contribution to the fight to free Africa from the scourge of apartheid. And how, in the doing, Cuba s socialist revolution also was strengthened."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our internationalism in Africa was born with the Cuban Revolution; title: Fall of Portuguese empire and defeat of South Africa's first invasion, 1975-76; title: UNITA and South Africa: The irregular war, 1976-87; title: The battle of Cangamba; title: Cuito Cuanavale, Calueque, and defeat of the apartheid regime, 1987-91; title: Internationalist missions in Ethiopia and Mozambique; title: `Fidel's leadership was decisive'.