Examines Africa's escalating conflicts, highlighting Jihadist insurgencies and their regional and...

When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralde...

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortli...

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, becau...

These are frightening times for us all: Sarin nerve gas being sprayed on innocent civilians in Sy...

Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, Al Venter examines the Soviet-led guerrilla conflict in...

Operation Savannah entered the annals of South African military tradition four decades ago. Few a...

A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the region from the 1970s on, Ne...

The world's oldest still-active war correspondent shares the real stories behind half a century o...

Here are thirty-four adrenaline-infused stories of police putting their lives on the line in purs...

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, becau...

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

These are frightening times for us all: Sarin nerve gas being sprayed on innocent civilians in Sy...

Not everybody is aware that the ships that rounded the South African coast over the past five cen...

Al Venter regards himself an African - a 'white' African, but as much a part of the fascinating a...

Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) ...

A new account of how Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique for over a decade.

Al Venter has been free-diving (without cages) with sharks for 40 years and has had three of his ...

Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere - the majority linked to al Qaeda -...

Venter's choice of military events is eclectic. He has four chapters on Afghanistan, three on Som...