CIA and British Mercenaries in Angola, 1975-1976: From Operation Ia/Feature to Massacre at Maquela

by Stephen Rookes

The 1974 Carnation Revolution came as a blessing for independence movements in Portugal's African colonies: Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea. As had been the case in a number of sub-Saharan countries suddenly finding themselves free of the colonial yoke, the political vacuum left behind by a previously omnipresent power gave different factions the opportunity to impose their own form of rule. Angola was no different: civil war broke out in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914059069
• ISBN13: 9781914059063
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.1" x 11.6"