THE SADF AND CUITO CUANAVALE, a tactical and strategic analysis

280pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2020

Military historian Leopold Scholtz examines recently declassified documents in the South African National Defence Force archives, analyses the decisions that shaped the six main battles around the Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale in 1987 and 1988, and addresses the question of who actually won the war.

Leopold Scholtz is the author of The SADF in the Border War, 1966-1989 and Ratels on the Lomba, the story of Charlie Squadron.