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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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