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Omar Al-Bashir and Africa's Longest War

By Paul L , Bashir , Omar Hasan Ahmad al-;Moorcraft

Book information

Publisher
Pen et Sword Military
Year
2015
ISBN
9781473828230, 9781473842526, 9781473854963, 9781473855021, 1473828236
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14705830 bytes)
Edition
1. publ. in Great Britain
Pages
XXIV, 232, [16] Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Bewaffneter Konflikt;Internationale Politik;PolitiOmar Hasan Ahmad al-;Sudan

Description

President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court.

He has been a central personality in Islamic and African politics, as well as a love-to-hate figure for the US in the 'war on terror'.

For military history readers, Al-Bashir is a field marshal who has fought possibly the world's longest conflict. Modern Sudan has been embroiled in war since 1955.

No proper biography has been written on him before. Nor has there been a comprehensive military history of Sudan. The book briefly covers the military background until independence. Then it dissects the long north-south civil war until Bashir's Islamist military coup in 1989. Thereafter it narrates the wars in the east, south, west (in Darfur), International political and military intervention is also factored...

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