The War for Africa: Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent

CONTENTS

PART 1: GENERAL SHAGANOVITCH’S OFFENSIVE

2 The South Africans move in

3 Sniffing out the enemy

4 Fapla’s advance continues

PART 2: THE DEFENCE

5 South Africa steps things up

6 South Africa’s first disaster

7 Enter the Falcon

8 The first land battle

9 The Second ‘Rumble on the Lomba’

PART 3: THE STING

10 Waiting and watching

11 Recce hardships

12 The Air Force gears up

13 War in the air

14 Laying the trap

15 Fancy tricks and dirty tricks

16 The Cavalry – 61 Mech – rides to the rescue

17 Softening up 47 Brigade

18 The trap closes

19 The destruction of 47 Brigade

20 Booty from the battlefield

21 Fapla’s offensive ends

PART 4: THE STALEMATE

22 Forward beyond the Lomba

23 The reinforcements arrive

PART 5: THE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE

24 The attack on 16 Brigade

25 ‘Destroy the G-5S!’

26 Fapla’s Great Escape: The Chambinga Gallop

PART 6: THE SIDESHOW

27 Begging for permission to destroy the enemy

PART 7: INTO 1988. OPERATION HOOPER – THE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE CONTINUED

28 The attack on 21 Brigade: 13 January 1988

29 Throwing something at the Cuito River Bridge

30 The attack on 59 Brigade: 14 February 1988

31 The attack on Highpoint 1251

PART 8: THE SIDESHOW (CONTINUED)

32 The attack on Menongue

PART 9: THE THREE BATTLES FOR THE TUMPO TRIANGLE

33 Mike Muller leads the First Tumpo Attack: 25 February 1988

34 Mike Muller leads the Second Tumpo Attack: 29 February 1988

35 Jaw-jaw begins to supplant war-war

36 Gerhard Louw leads the Third Tumpo Attack: 23 March 1988

PART 10: THE DENOUEMENT

37 More jaw-jaw

38 Fidel’s last hurrah!

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