Venter Al J : 10 books
Barrel Of A Gun A War Correspondent's Misspent Moments In Combat
A War Correspondent’s Misspent Moments in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia or in Beirut during its bloody heyday." So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist filmmaker and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare on the ground and as the bullets are flying....
War Dog Fighting Other People's Wars-The Modern Mercenary In Combat
Fighting Other People's Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
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...
Biafra's War 1967-1970
A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
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...
Gunship Ace: The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary
The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
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 has fought in the Balkan War (for Islamic forces), tried to resuscitate Mobutus...
Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa
Lisbon's Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea 1961-74
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
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...
by Al J Venter
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
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 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...
Battle For Angola
The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
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....
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Shadow of Terror over The Sahel, from 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
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...
El Salvador
Dance of the Death Squads, 1980–1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
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...
Biafra Genocide
Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967–1970
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
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 Africa’s first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism....