Bøger af Al J. Venter

The world's oldest still-active war correspondent shares the real stories behind half a century of headlines from the front lines.

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

Latest edition to the Cold War series, this time focussing on The Biafra War.

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 Maghreb

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.