Portugal`s Guerilla Wars in Africa: Lisbon`s Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea 1961-74 9781912866052

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Автор: Al J. Venter
Название: Portugal`s Guerilla Wars in Africa: Lisbon`s Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea 1961-74
ISBN: 9781912866052
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Классификация:

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Послевоенная история 20 века: с 1945 по 2000

Военная история

Военная история: после ВМВ

Военные действия и оборона

ISBN-10: 1912866056
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 544
Вес: 1.17 кг.
Дата издания: 15.05.2019
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Profusely illustrated with colour & b/w photos, maps
Размер: H 1500 X W 750
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000,Military history
Подзаголовок: Lisbon`s three wars in angola, mozambique and portuguese guinea 1961-74
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Portugals 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 among the most underreported conflicts of the modern era.Commonly referred to as Lisbons Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies, the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertacao), these struggles played a seminal role in ending white rule in Southern Africa.Though hardly on the scale of hostilities being fought in South East Asia, the casualty count by the time a military coup detat took place in Lisbon in April 1974 was significant. It was certainly enough to cause Portugal to call a halt to violence and pull all its troops back to the Metropolis. Ultimately, Lisbon was to move out of Africa altogether, when hundreds of thousands of Portuguese nationals returned to Europe, the majority having left everything they owned behind. Independence for all the former colonies, including the Atlantic islands, followed soon afterwards.Lisbon ruled its African territories for more than five centuries, not always undisputed by its black and mestizo subjects, but effectively enough to create a lasting Lusitanian tradition. That imprint is indelible and remains engraved in language, social mores and cultural traditions that sometimes have more in common with Europe than with Africa. Today, most of the newspapers in Luanda, Maputo - formerly Lourenco Marques - and Bissau are in Portuguese, as is the language taught in their schools and used by their respective representatives in international bodies to which they all subscribeIndeed, on a recent visit to Central Mozambique in 2013, a youthful member of the American Peace Corps told this author that despite having been embroiled in conflict with the Portuguese for many years in the 1960s and 1970s, he found the local people with whom he came into contact inordinately fond of their erstwhile colonial overlords.As a foreign correspondent, Al Venter covered all three wars over more than a decade, spending lengthy periods in the territories while going on operations with the Portuguese army, marines and air force. In the process he wrote several books on these conflicts, including a report on the conflict in Portuguese Guinea for the Munger Africana Library of the California Institute of Technology.Portugals Guerrilla Wars in Africa represents an amalgam of these efforts. At the same time, this book is not an official history, but rather a journalists perspective of military events as viewed by somebody who has made a career of reporting on overseas wars, Africas especially. Venters camera was always at hand; most of the images used between these covers are his.His approach is both intrusive and personal and he would like to believe that he has managed to record for posterity a tiny but vital segment of African history.

Portugal`s Guerilla Wars in Africa: Lisbon`s Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea 1961-74, Al J. Venter