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  • TAKKA TAKKA BOM BOM
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    TAKKA TAKKA BOM BOM
    AL J. VENTER
    The world’s oldest still-active war correspondent shares the real stories behind half a century of headlines from the front lines. The world’s oldest still-active war correspondent Al J. Venter has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horrors humanity visits upon itself in twenty-five conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Centr...

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  • PORTUGAL'S BUSH WAR IN MOZAMBIQUE
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    PORTUGAL'S BUSH WAR IN MOZAMBIQUE
    AL J. VENTER
    A new account of how Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique for over a decade. Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique — one of the most beautiful countries in the world — for over a decade. The small European nation was ranged against formidable odds and in the end was unable to muster the resources required to effectively take on the might of the Soviet Union and its colla...

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  • BATTLE FOR ANGOLA
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    BATTLE FOR ANGOLA
    AL J. VENTER
    Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' - his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony. This is a completely fresh work running to almost 600 pages including 32 pages of ...

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  • BIAFRA'S WAR 1967-1970
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    BIAFRA'S WAR 1967-1970
    AL J. VENTER
    Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra’s war was modern Africa’s first extended conflict. It lasted almost three years and was based largely on ethnic, by inference, tribal grounds. It inv...

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  • MERCENARIES
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    MERCENARIES
    AL J. VENTER
    An “in-depth [and] well-researched” look at soldiers-for-hire and their role in modern warfare around the globe—includes photos (Portland Book Review). Mercenaries have been a part of warfare for centuries, and in today’s world, these hired guns are an attractive alternative for Western governments reluctant to put their militaries at risk for obscure causes that would otherwis...

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  • PORTUGAL'S GUERRILLA WARS IN AFRICA
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    PORTUGAL'S GUERRILLA WARS IN AFRICA
    AL J. VENTER
    Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013 Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are among the most underreported conflicts of the modern era. Commonly referred to as Lisbon's Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the ...

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  • GUNSHIP ACE
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    GUNSHIP ACE
    AL J. VENTER
    “Spotlights the career of a fascinating modern warrior, while also shedding light on some of the conflicts that have raged throughout the world” (Tucson Citizen). A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the region from the 1970s on, Neall Ellis is the best-known mercenary combat aviator alive. Apart from flying Alouette helicopter gunships in Angola, he...

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  • BARREL OF A GUN
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    BARREL OF A GUN
    AL J. VENTER
    A colorful, wide-ranging memoir of danger and adventure in wars around the world. Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn’t spent time in Somalia . . . So begins this memoir of a career spent examining warfare—on the ground and as the bullets are flying. While many are intrigued by these violent conflicts, Al Venter feels compelled to see them in person, p...

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  • IRAN'S NUCLEAR OPTION
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    IRAN'S NUCLEAR OPTION
    AL J. VENTER
    “The most systematic exposition to date about Iran’s nuclear program and its role in world affairs” (Middle East Quarterly). Since the Islamic Republic of Iran admitted that it was secretly producing highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium, nations have struggled to react appropriately. For the first time, and in full detail, this book explains exactly what the Europeans and Uni...

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  • WAR DOG
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    WAR DOG
    AL J. VENTER
    Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization, yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today’s freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments, others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog, Al Venter examines the latter world of mercenary fighters effecting decisions by themselves. In the proce...

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  • EL SALVADOR
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    EL SALVADOR
    AL J. VENTER
    When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and...

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  • AL-QAEDA IN THE ISLAMIC MAGHREB
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    AL-QAEDA IN THE ISLAMIC MAGHREB
    AL J. VENTER
    Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere the majority linked to al Qaeda are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very little surfaces about a festering insurgency that has been on the go for six years in West Africa under the acronym of AQIM, or al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. This low-level series of guerrilla conflicts is widespread and sporadic, c...

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  • BIAFRA GENOCIDE
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    BIAFRA GENOCIDE
    AL J. VENTER
    One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children died in one of Africas first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism. It certainly was not because the Biafran War is still the most expansive tribal conflag...

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  • SOMALIA
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    SOMALIA
    AL J. VENTER
    When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europewith the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, So...

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  • LEBANON
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    LEBANON
    AL J. VENTER
    When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europewith the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, So...

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  • SIERRA LEONE: REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT
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    SIERRA LEONE: REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT
    AL J. VENTER
    Sierra Leones eleven-year guerrilla war that left 200,000 people dead was brief, bloody and mindlessly brutal. It was also the second African war in which mercenaries were hired to counter some of the worst atrocities that Africa had on offer. By the time it ended in 2002, several groups of mercenaries including an air wing equipped with a pair of ageing Mi-24 helicopter gunshi...

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  • ANGOLAN WAR OF LIBERATION
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    ANGOLAN WAR OF LIBERATION
    AL J. VENTER
    When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of conducting three simultaneous counterinsurgency campaigns to preserve its hegemony of Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique. While other European stat...

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  • THE LAST OF AFRICA'S COLD WAR CONFLICTS
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    THE LAST OF AFRICA'S COLD WAR CONFLICTS
    AL J. VENTER
    This detailed combat history sheds light on the significant yet overlooked guerilla campaigns in what would become Angola and Guinea-Bissou. Portugal was the first European country to colonize Africa. It was also the last to leave, almost five centuries later. During what Lisbon called its “civilizing mission” the Portuguese weathered numerous insurrections, but none as severe ...

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