THE LAST HOT BATTLE OF THE COLD WAR: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War

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As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since El Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what U.S.-Soviet diplomats were otherwise spending in diplomacy. The Angolans on both sides suffered heavily, but it was the apartheid South Africans versus Castro's armed forces that provides utter fascination. Contains 16 pages of photos.