Status
Checked out
Call number
Call number
A11.5 Pe
Publication
Claremont, South Africa : D. Philip, 2005.
Description
Shows the human face of Angola at a critical juncture in its history. Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel movement UNITA, was killed in February 2002. UNITA collapsed, giving Angola its first extended period of peace, since the nationalist uprising against Portuguese rule in the 1960s. This is a story of the extremes of the human condition.
Language
Physical description
xx, 196 p.; 21 cm
ISBN
9780864866769
Other editions
Outbreak of Peace by Justin Pearce (Paperback)
Library's review
Justin writes with a journalist's flair for story-telling that keeps the reader engaged. Couple that with the fact that he was on the scene during the whirlwind days of the end of Angola's civil war, getting glimpses of scenes closed from the peering eyes of the outside world, and the result is a
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page-turner. I live in Angola and have read many books on Angola, but I always recommend a visitor to Angola read this book first. No other gives such a perfectly balanced intro to the horrors of Angola's history, the exuberance of Angola's hopes, and the maelstrom when those two extremes collided in 2002. Show Less