Modern African Wars (5)
The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70
With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the attention of the western media, with individual commanders such as Biafran leader Colonel Ojukwu and Federal Colonel Adekunle becoming familiar figures across the globe. The Nigerian forces easily outnumbered their opponents and benefitted from British and Soviet equipment, yet against all the odds the Biafrans held out for two and a half years, inflicting many setbacks on the Federal forces be…
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Weitere Autoren: Ruggeri, Raffaele (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-1610-8
- EAN: 9781472816108
- Produktnummer: 20565086
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 32'296 KB
- Abbildungen: 25 b/w; 15 col
Über den Autor
Philip Jowett was born in Leeds in 1961, and has been interested in military history for as long as he can remember. His first Osprey book was the ground-breaking Men-at-Arms 306: Chinese Civil War Armies 1911-49; he has since published the three-part sequence The Italian Army 1940-45 (Men-at-Arms 340, 349 and 353). He lives in North Lincolnshire, UK.
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The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70
The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70
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Armies of the Greek-Turkish War 1919-22
The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70
The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70
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