(Paperback)
By: Peter Baxter
ISBN: 9781912866823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2019
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Examining the past and present relationship of France with her erstwhile African colonial possessions, Operation Barracuda, Operations Almandin I, II and II, Operation Boali and the various regional, international and European regional interventions feature.
(Paperback)
By: Tom Cooper
ISBN: 9781909384668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2013
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Great Lakes Conflagration is the second in two volumes covering military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the turn from the 21st century.
(Paperback)
By: Tom Cooper
ISBN: 9781909384651
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2013
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Great Lakes Holocaust is the first in two volumes covering military operations in Zaire - as the Congo was named from 1971 until 1997 - and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the turn of the 21st century.
(Paperback)
By: Kerrin Cocks
ISBN: 9781910294055
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2015
Publisher: Helion & Company
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On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga, the war of liberation.
(Paperback)
By: John P. Cann
ISBN: 9781909384637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2013
Publisher: Helion & Company
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In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa.
(Paperback)
By: Tom Cooper
ISBN: 9781910294567
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2016
Publisher: Helion & Company
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On 1 October 1990, hundreds of Banyarawanda militants that served with the Ugandan Army deserted their posts to form the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and invade Rwanda. Thus began the Rwandan Civil War, which was to culminate in the famous genocide of nearly one million of Tutsi and moderate Hutus, in 1994.
(Paperback, 4th edition)
By: Linda Melvern
ISBN: 9781350409637
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Maria Golia
ISBN: 9781789146295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A history of tomb-raiders in Egypt since antiquity.
(Paperback)
By: Maria Golia
ISBN: 9781789149524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A history of tomb-raiders in Egypt since antiquity.
(Paperback)
By: Sophy Roberts
ISBN: 9780857528384
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780241338834
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241509166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Zeinab Badawi
ISBN: 9780753560136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Caroline Elkins
ISBN: 9781529946185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Prof Peter Parsons
ISBN: 9780753822333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2007
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a low sand-covered mound a hundred miles south of Cairo. When they had finally finished, ten years later, they had uncovered 500 000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous and scholarly
(Paperback)
By: Jason Stearns
ISBN: 9781610391078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2012
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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"Riveting and certain to become essential reading for anyone looking to understand Central Africa."--Wall Street Journal
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By: Paul Kenyon
ISBN: 9781784972141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A vivid, heartbreaking portrait of the fate that so many African countries suffered after independence.
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By: Julia Blackburn
ISBN: 9781787332188
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Michela Wrong
ISBN: 9781841154220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A story of comedy amid the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot: Michela Wrong's vision of Congo/Zaire during the Mobutu years is incisive, ironic and revelatory.
(Hardback)
By: Astrid Madimba
ISBN: 9781529376784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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IT'S A CONTINENT is the illuminating history book that aims to unravel misconceptions and celebrate Africa's rich and diverse history, one country at a time.
(Paperback)
By: Charles Hornsby
ISBN: 9781350362246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Adam Hochschild
ISBN: 9781035038817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A riveting and highly readable account of the Congo massacre, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes.
(Hardback)
By: Elizabeth Stanley
ISBN: 9780719065682
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Mourning Becomes. challenges many supposed 'facts' about the concentration camps established by the British military during the South African War 1899-1902. -- .
(Hardback)
By: Jonathan Kingdon
ISBN: 9780008423001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A major new look at how Africas geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on Earth Homo sapiens.
