"Let us go into action with Charlie Squadron living on the edge; Ratel 90s against Russian T55 tanks; few against many! A captivating read with beautiful twists and turns, without once losing the thread. A story most profound of life in the military as told by a young South African national serviceman who served during the South African Border War. David Mannal gives a vivid account of one of the fiercest mechanised battles of contemporary warfare in Africa, which was fought in southeast Angola--the Battle of the Lomba ...
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"Let us go into action with Charlie Squadron living on the edge; Ratel 90s against Russian T55 tanks; few against many! A captivating read with beautiful twists and turns, without once losing the thread. A story most profound of life in the military as told by a young South African national serviceman who served during the South African Border War. David Mannal gives a vivid account of one of the fiercest mechanised battles of contemporary warfare in Africa, which was fought in southeast Angola--the Battle of the Lomba River on 3 October 1987. This was the battle which turned the deliberate onslaught of an overwhelming Angolan-Cuban conventional coalition force at the height of the Cold War and sent the enemy reeling. Our young national servicemen were warriors! For dauntless service rendered by men such as 19-years old David Mannall one can only feel and express gratefulness. Their combined best proved good enough." --Major General (Retired) Roland de Vries - former commander of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (1981-1982) and former deputy chief of the South African Army; back cover.
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New. 2014. Paperback. The climactic death-throes of Soviet Communism during the 1980s included a last-gasp attempt at strategic franchise expansion in Southern Africa. Channelled through Castro's Cuba, oil-rich Angolan armed forces (FAPLA) received billions of dollars of weaponry including MiG 23 and Sukhoi fighter jets, SAM 8 missile systems and armoured vehicles. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMA; 3JJPN; HBJH; HBLW3; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 576......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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New. 0.8 x 6.5 x 9.2 inches. pp. 264. Brand new. Pristine. No markings. South African troopie's gripping personal narrative of the massive mechanized battle at the Lomba River in southeast Angola in 1987. A South African light armored squadron utterly defeated a much larger Cuban-Angolan force despite the enemy's superiority in numbers and Cuban MiG-23 air support. Profusely illustrated. // Shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box.