The men of the Malayan Scouts returned as Heroes to their Native Rhodesia. Filled with experience and the haggard look of men hardened by battle, they
“31 May 1991 "Settlement from exhaustion" the Bicesse Accords: In Lisbon, #Portugal, after 16 years of conflict UNITA guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi and President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of #Angola signed a peace agreement leading to free elections in 1992”
Winston Churchill described the 1930s in Britain as "years the locusts have eaten". Those words are more apt for the United States in the first 8 years of the 21st century under George W Bush.
On This Day in photos: November 11 1965: The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, cuts all links with the British Crown. Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) came after talks with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
It’s been a long quarter-century since the first President Bush put the U.S. on the road to an Iraq-Afghanistan quagmire. It’s been barely a year since ISIS became a national obsession. As some call for another surge, political columnist Michael Kinsley remembers what happened in between.
As Rhodesia fought a bloody conflict against cross-border insurgents, the Hawker Hunters of its air force’s 1 Squadron operated effectively despite an arms supply embargo
Depicted in Films like Sarafina!, The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976, stands as a pivotal moment in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Fueled by deep-rooted grievances and a growing sense of resistance to the oppressive regime, this uprising marked a turning point in the fight for
Gered Mankowitz and Guido Harari share images from their archives
Photographs show how the Cold War spilled into the African bush as rival forces battled for control of oil-rich Angola in south-western Africa.
515 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Player's Cigarettes "Riders of the World" (issued in 1905) #21 Somali Horseman
