An exploration of how Jihadist forces are responsible for instigating and escalating conflicts in...

The story of how an ailing colonial power comprehensively defeated a communist-inspired insurgency.

A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the region from the 1970s on, Ne...

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortli...

Illustrated with photos and maps, this is a study of a significant African conflict penned by an ...

Al Venter regards himself an African a white African, but as much a part of the fascinating and o...

As the Crow Flies: My Bushman Experience with 31 Battalion

Portugal was the first European country to colonize Africa. It was also the last to leave, almost...

Al Venter was rarely conventional in his approach to problems encountered in the Middle East.

You've seen it in countless Hollywood movies in recent years: a bad guy shoots a cop and instead ...

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, becau...

Sierra Leone's eleven-year guerrilla war - that left 200,000 people dead - was brief, bloody and ...

This book covers scores of shipwrecks East Indiamen, warships from before and after the Napoleoni...

Assesses the developments over the past 10 years of different countries and their building of nuc...

Neall Ellis is the best-known mercenary combat aviator alive. This book describes the full career...

Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) ...

Al Venter has been free-diving (without cages) with sharks for fourty years and has had three of ...

On cover, photographer name given as Jan Peducasse.

Venter's choice of military events is eclectic. He has four chapters on Afghanistan, three on Som...

When the world held its breath ...

When the world held its breath ...

A new account of how Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique for over a decade.

Of all the books about South Africa's 21-year 'Border War' - fought on both sides of Angola's fro...

The world's oldest still-active war correspondent shares the real stories behind half a century o...