TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cherry,Janet
TI  - Spear of the Nation: South Africa's Liberation Army, 1960s-1990s
T2  - Ohio Short Histories of Africa Series
SN  - 9780821444436
AV  - DT1796.U45 2012 
U1  - 322.420968 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Athens, OH
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)--History
KW  - African National Congress
KW  - National liberation movements--South Africa
KW  - South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1994
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The turn to armed struggle, 1960-3 -- 3. The Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns, 1967-8 -- 4. Struggling to get home, 1969-84 -- 5. Reaping the whirlwind, 1984-9 -- 6. The end of armed struggle -- 7. A sober assessment of MK -- Sources and further reading -- Index
N2  - Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century--but it never got to "march triumphant into Pretoria." MK--as it was known--was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government
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