Modern African Wars vol. 2: Angola and Mozambique, 1961-74 (Men-at-arms No 202) - Softcover

Peter Abbott; Manuel Ribeiro Rodrigues

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850458439 ISBN 13: 9780850458435

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 1988

Synopsis

ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY AS AN E-BOOK. Portugal was both the first and the last of the great European colonial powers. For 500 years Portugal had colonies in Africa. In 1960, as liberation movements swept across colonial Africa, the Portuguese flag still flew over vast expanses of territory across the continent. The spread of decolonization and the establishment of independent states whose governments were sympathetic to the cause of African nationalism led, in the early 1960s, to a series of wars in Angola, Guiné and Mozambique. This book details each of these liberation movements, focusing on the equipment, uniforms and organization of the Portuguese forces.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Abbott is a retired university lecturer. He has written or co-authored a number of Men-at-Arms titles for Osprey. He is particularly interested in 19th and 20th century armies that are less well known to the English speaking reader, and he has been collecting material on the various Ukrainian forces for many years. A respected historian specializing in 20th century Africa, Manuel Rodrigues also contributed to this book. RONALD VOLSTAD was born in 1949 in Alberta, Canada, where he still lives and works. Like several of Osprey's leading military illustrators he had no formal art training, though he did work in a TV company's art department - before spending 15 years operating heavy machinery in the oil industry. His first illustrations were published in 1970; since then he has become widely known for his work in Squadron and Osprey publications and for Dragon Models, and has also worked as a courtroom artist for TV news.

Edition details

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0850458439
• ISBN 13: 9780850458435
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Ron Volstsd
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48