The Battle for Mozambique

Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Glossary; Chapter 1: Prelude to War; Capter 2: Birth of an Insurgency; Chapter 3: Battleground Central Mozambique; Chapter 4: Punch and Counterpunch; Chapter 5: The South African Factor; Chapter 6: Zimbabwe to the Rescue; hapter 7: The Slugfest Continues; Chapter 8: The Hardest Battle of All; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. The sixteen-year-long war in Mozambique between the Frelimo government and Renamo rebels remains one of the most overlooked and misunderstood of the conflicts that raged across Africa during the height of the Cold War. While usually viewed as mere sideshow to more high-profile wars in Angola, Rhodesia and within apartheid South Africa itself, it nonetheless is noteworthy in its complexity, duration and destructiveness. Before it was all over in 1992 at least one million Mozambicans would be dead, millions more homeless and the country lying in ruins. Ultimately Frelimo would get its victory, not on the battlefield but rather at the polling booth in 1994.