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Al J. Venter

    25 november 1938

    Al J Venter is een oorlogscorrespondent en documentairemaker wiens uitgebreide carrière hem naar het hart van talrijke wereldwijde conflicten heeft geleid. Zijn verslaggeving vanuit de meest grimmige oorlogen van Afrika en het Midden-Oosten, van de Nigeriaanse Burgeroorlog tot de onrust in Libanon, toont een onwankelbare toewijding aan het documenteren van de brute realiteiten van de strijd. Venter's werk wordt gekenmerkt door zijn rauwe realisme en een scherp inzicht in menselijk veerkracht en brutaliteit tegenover geweld. Via zijn boeken en documentaires levert hij essentiële getuigenissen over cruciale momenten in de moderne geschiedenis.

    Gunship Ace
    Sierra Leone: Revolutionary United Front
    Angolan War of Liberation
    Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
    Biafra Genocide
    Portugal's Guerilla Wars in Africa
    • 2025
    • 2023

      Takka Takka Bom Bom

      An African War Correspondent's Story

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      From a small town in Mpumalanga to dodging bullets in war-torn Al J. Venter, the oldest war correspondent still active, bore witness to some of humanity’s biggest atrocities – and has lived to tell the tale. In the 1960s, with little money, a sense of adventure and a healthy dollop of chutzpah, Venter set out overland from Cape Town to London. Since then, Venter has reported from 25 conflict zones. In his memoir, Venter masterfully recounts his experiences.

      Takka Takka Bom Bom
    • 2018

      Nuclear Terror

      • 312bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Al Venter is a recognised expert in recent military history, particularly on nuclear weapons. In Nuclear Terror, he assesses the developments over the past 10 years of different countries in their attempts to build a nuclear programme.

      Nuclear Terror
    • 2018

      Biafra Genocide

      • 128bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen
      4,0(1)Tarief

      Latest edition to the Cold War series, this time focussing on The Biafra War.

      Biafra Genocide
    • 2018

      Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

      • 128bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen
      3,5(4)Tarief

      Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere-the majority linked to al Qaeda-are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very little surfaces about a festering insurgency that has been on the go for six years in West Africa under the acronym of AQIM, or al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

      Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
    • 2018

      Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended, but memories die hard. Biafra's war was modern Africa's first extended conflict & lasted almost three years.

      Biafra'S War 1967-1970
    • 2018
    • 2018

      Angolan War of Liberation

      • 136bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen
      2,0(1)Tarief

      The story of how an ailing colonial power comprehensively defeated a communist-inspired insurgency.

      Angolan War of Liberation
    • 2017

      Al-Qaeda, through its surrogate insurgent force al-Shabaab remains a major player in Somalia, receiving its support from Iran, today a close ally of the Russians

      Somalia
    • 2017

      Lebanon

      • 136bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen

      Al Venter was rarely conventional in his approach to problems encountered in the Middle East. číst celé

      Lebanon