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“ludo de witte”

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  • The Assassination of Lumumba

    by Ludo De Witte ...
    Translated by Renee Fenby, Ann Wright ...
    The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba—the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity—since it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

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    No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as “carrying France on [his] shoulders.”In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler’s Germany. Thereafter, he ... Read more

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  • Africa's World War : Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, And The Making Of A Continental Catastrophe

    by Gerard Prunier ...
    The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the ... Read more

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  • The Age of Eisenhower

    America and the World in the 1950s

    by William I Hitchcock ...
    A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through ... Read more

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  • White Malice

    The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

    by Susan Williams ...
    A revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically undermined by the United States."Fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas." —NPR**"A triumph of archival research." —**JacobinIn 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. The charismatic ... Read more

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  • Chief of Station, Congo

    Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone

    by Lawrence Devlin ...
    Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry boat, all he could see were lines of people trying to travel the other way -- out of the Congo. Within his first two weeks he found himself on the ... Read more

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  • Katanga 1960-63

    Mercenaries, Spies and the African Nation that Waged War on the World

    by Christopher Othen ...
    In King Leopold II's infamous Congo 'Free' State at the turn of the century, severed hands became a form of currency. But some in the Belgian government had no sense of historical shame, as they connived for an independent Katanga state in 1960 to protect Belgian mining interests. What happened next was extraordinary.It was an extremely uneven battle. The UN fielded soldiers from twenty nations, ... Read more

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  • Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

    From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

    by Robin Philpot ...
    Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that "the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity." Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million Tutsis after the Rwandan presidential plane crashed in the heart of dark Africa on April 6, 1994. Where ... Read more

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  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja ...
    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... Read more

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  • The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil

    A Frenchman between France and North Africa

    by William A. Hoisington, Jr. ...
    Series series History and Society in the Islamic World
    This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership ... Read more

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  • The Democratic Republic of Congo

    Between Hope and Despair

    by Michael Deibert ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Over the past two decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been at the centre of the deadliest series of conflicts since the Second World War, and now hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. In this compelling book, acclaimed journalist Michael Deibert paints a picture of a nation in flux, inching towards peace but at the same time solidifying into another era of ... Read more

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  • De Gaulle

    The Man Who Defied Six US Presidents

    by Douglas Boyd ...
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREAfter watching a D-Day film, do you wonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country?General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000 Free French soldiers, but US President Roosevelt insisted they not be told the date of the invasion because he intended to occupy France and open the country up to American Big Business, while keeping in ... Read more

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