Borderstrike!: South Africa Into Angola 1975-1980Lulu.com, 2006 - 508 páginas |
Índice
Theatres of War | 1 |
Stirrings in South West Africa 19571975 | 9 |
Child of the Cold War | 17 |
Early Days in Operation Savannah | 25 |
Koos van Heerden and the Fruitlorry war OctoberNovember 1975 | 45 |
The Ambrizete Incident 1975 | 97 |
External Operations Part 1 Operation Reindeer May 1978 | 127 |
A small town far away | 131 |
Operation Revenge August 1978 | 217 |
The final blow | 219 |
Meeting at Sesheke | 221 |
Revenge | 223 |
and retribution | 225 |
Postscripts | 229 |
Operation Sceptic June 1980 | 231 |
Rehearsals for a general | 233 |
Enter the Brown Man | 135 |
Juliet is born | 141 |
Back from the brink | 145 |
Strike from the sky | 151 |
Problems and recovery | 157 |
Rifle and grenade | 163 |
Surrender | 169 |
First lift | 171 |
Clash at the crossroads | 177 |
No Alamo | 183 |
Hellforleather at Chetequera | 189 |
A corporal weeps | 193 |
Second round | 197 |
Juliet goes home | 201 |
Eastern operations | 203 |
Costs counted and lessons learnt | 205 |
Postscripts | 207 |
Business not bull | 237 |
My son be strong | 239 |
Into battle | 245 |
Your buddies are bleeding | 251 |
Anxious night | 254 |
Mopping up | 259 |
Sweep in the west | 265 |
A poor Christians trek | 269 |
Parting shots | 273 |
Postscripts | 277 |
Young Mens Wars | 279 |
Appendices A New Angolan placenames | 281 |
B Early Honoris Crux recipients | 283 |
Declassified Cuban documents | 287 |
Maps of operations and actions 19751980 | 291 |
E Table of Photos | 323 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
according action advance aircraft Alpha Angola armed armoured cars Army arrived attack base Battalion Battle Group Bravo Breytenbach bush called camp carried Cassinga clear Combat Team commander Company complex Cuban dead Defence Dippenaar direction fact FAPLA fighting final fire FNLA followed force four further ground guns hand happened head headquarters Heerden helicopters immediately infantry insurgents killed kilometres landed later leave light looked Major military mortar moved never night officer Ondangwa Operation orders paratroopers PLAN platoon position possible prepare radio Ratel reached reason remained remembers reported result returned river road running SAAF SADF Savannah sent shot side soldiers soon South African stage started SWAPO taken Task Force things told took town trenches troops turned unit vehicles weapons West wounded
Referências a este livro
Embargo Disimplemented: South Africa's Military Industry Signe Landgren Visualização de excertos - 1989 |