Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960-1965

by Lise Namikas

Book Overview

Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title

Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United States, and to a lesser extent Germany and Belgium, Lisa Namikas addresses the crisis from the perspectives of the two superpowers and explains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804796807
• ISBN13: 9780804796804
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"