Omar al-Bashir and Africa's Longest War (Pen & Sword Military) - Hardcover

Paul Moorcraft

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1473828236 ISBN 13: 9781473828230

Publisher: Pen & Sword Military, 2015

Synopsis

President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court. He has been a central personality in Islamic and African politics, as well as a love-to-hate figure for the US in the 'war on terror'. For military history readers, Al-Bashir is a field marshal who has fought possibly the world's longest conflict. Modern Sudan has been embroiled in war since 1955. No proper biography has been written on him before. Nor has there been a comprehensive military history of Sudan. The book briefly covers the military background until independence. Then it dissects the long north-south civil war until Bashir's Islamist military coup in 1989. Thereafter it narrates the wars in the east, south, west (in Darfur), International political and military intervention is also factored in. The author draws on in-depth one-on-one interviews with Bashir himself and his family and close political, military and intelligence colleagues.

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About the Author:

Professor Paul Moorcraft has over 20 years frontline reporting experiencers, from Zimbabwe to Afghanistan and as a correspondent for print, radio and TV for nearly 40 years. He is currently Visiting Professor at Cardiff University and Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London. Three of his published works are in print with Pen and Sword - The Rhodesian War, Mugabe's War Machine and Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers. He lives near Guildford, Surrey

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1473828236
• ISBN 13: 9781473828230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256