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Beyond the border war : New perspectives on Southern Africa's late-Cold war conflicts, Paperback / softback Book

Beyond the border war : New perspectives on Southern Africa's late-Cold war conflicts Paperback / softback

Edited by Gary Baines, Peter Vale

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For some fifteen years, little attention has been paid to South Africa's late Cold War conflicts and the memories of soldiers who fought in them.

Likewise, combatants with the liberation movements have all but been forgotten or otherwise marginalised in the new political dispensation.

But the recent controversy over the exclusion of the names of SADF soldiers from the Freedom Park memorial wall and the popularity of publications and the existence of Internet sites that host personal accounts of the war suggest that there is significant public interest in these matters.

The discovery of mass graves and questions about the treatment of detainees in SWAPO camps has kept the war in the public eye in Namibia.This volume offers new perspectives on the Border War through the paradigms of diplomatic and military history, cultural and literary studies, as well as victimology.

Contributors to this volume have challenged the boundaries, broken the silences, even tackled some taboos about the war.

They have put the Border War firmly back on the academic agenda thereby mirroring its place in the popular imagination.

Gary Baines is an Associate Professor in the History Department and Peter Vale is the Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

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