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A generation ago soldiers of the South African Army slipped discretely over the northern border of what was then South West Africa on the country’s first real external combat operation since World War II. Operation Savannah marked the start of a protracted campaign, part counter-insurgency and part conventional, that did not end until 1989, a decade and a half later. In 1983 Willem Steenkamp wrote the first detailed account about the early days. Entitled "Borderstrike!", it went into two editions and is still a standard reference work on the place and period. In this new third edition, he has updated and greatly expanded his original work to provide what is virtually a new book, which retains most of the old material but has a great deal that is new. Amoung the provocative comments, observations and revelations which emerge from the revised version of Borderstrike! are the following: - Why the "border war" came within an inch of ending in 1978 instead of 1989 ... but didn’t. - How the Cold War drastically affected every single military war and insurrection in Southern and Central Africa for almost three decades. - Why none of the three home-grown movements involved in the Angolan c

Who reads Borderstrike! : South Africa into Angola?

Author

Steenkamp, Willem, 1940-

Publisher

Durban, Pretoria ; Woburn, Mass.: Butterworths

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780409100624

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14