Paul Moorcraft - Total Onslaught

TOTAL ONSLAUGHT

Recent military history by Paul Moorcraft

African Nemesis: War and Revolution in Southern Africa; 19452010

Axis of Evil: The War on Terror (with Gwyn Winfield and John Chisholm)

Guns and Poses: Travels with an Occasional War Correspondent

Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places

The Rhodesian War: A Military History (with Peter McLaughlin)

Mugabes War Machine

Shooting the Messenger: The Politics of War Reporting (with Philip M. Taylor)

Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: the Rare Victory in Sri Lankas Long War

Omar al-Bashir and Africas Longest War

The Jihadist Threat: The Re-conquest of the West?

Dying for the Truth: The Concise History of Frontline War Reporting

Superpowers, Rogue States and Terrorism: Countering the Security Threats to the West

Deadlines on the Front Line: Travels with an Old War Horse

On mathematics

It just doesnt add up: Explaining Dyscalculia and Overcoming Number Problems for Children and Adults

Recent fiction

Anchoress of Shere Regression

War and Revolution in Southern Africa since 1945

PAUL MOORCRAFT

First published in Great Britain in 2018 by

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Professor Paul Moorcraft has written numerous non-fiction books on military history, politics, international relations and mathematics, as well as being an award-winning novelist. In southern Africa he taught fulltime (consecutively) at the universities of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Natal, Cape Town and the Witwatersrand. He also worked as a freelance foreign correspondent for most of the major international TV networks as well as being a fulltime stringer for Time magazine. He was editor in chief of the regions largest publishing house, and a controversial political columnist for the weekly Sunday Express, Johannesburg, and for the Star, Africas biggest English-language daily newspaper. Besides that, he produced dozens of award-winning TV documentaries on the politics of the sub-continent.

More particularly, he spent five years covering the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, producing the well-known A Short Thousand Years: the End of Rhodesias Rebellion (1979); in the same year he was elected by his local and foreign colleagues to be the vice-chair of the Press (Quill) Club and to aid the hundreds of correspondents coming to Rhodesia to cover the two elections that led to the countrys independence in 1980. It was probably this media position that kept the author out of a threatened prison cell because the government wanted the elections to succeed. In addition, he later served as a uniformed reserve officer in the British South Africa Police/Zimbabwe Republic Police.

Paul Moorcraft later worked with the South African Police to co-author Stander: BankReporting (2016). Although his main continental focus was on southern Africa, Dr Moorcraft has worked extensively throughout the continent, for example, in Sudan, especially Darfur and South Sudan. Omar al-Bashir and Africas Longest War was published in 2015.

He wrote the first comprehensive inside history of the conflict in Sri Lanka, Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: The Rare Victory in Sri Lankas Long War (2012). The author is unusual in having had direct front-line combat experience of working with jihadists, starting with the Afghan Mujahedin in 1984. The Jihadist Threat: The Re-conquest of the West? (2015) was shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year (2016). His most recent books are Superpowers, Rogue States and Terrorism: Countering the Security Threats to the West (2017) and Deadlines on the Frontline (2018), both by Pen and Sword.

Besides the southern African universities, Dr Moorcraft taught fulltime at six other major international universities in the USA, UK, and Australasia as well as being a visiting professor at other universities and military colleges. He also served extensively in the UK Ministry of Defence in theatre in the Balkans and the Middle East, as well as in Whitehall. For five years he was a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and later at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, which became part of the UK Defence Academy. In 2004 he was the founding Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London, a think tank dedicated to conflict resolution. In this role he was, for example, the Head of Mission for fifty British observers in the 2010 election in Sudan. He lives in a riverside cottage in the Surrey Hills, near Guildford, England.

Southern Africa

Major battlefields and sieges (nineteenth century)

Colonialism in Southern Africa

Katanga province in the Congo

Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland

The war against the Portuguese

The South African invasion of Angola

South West Africa/Namibia

Guerrilla infiltration routes into Mozambique

Guerrilla infiltration routes into Rhodesia

The SADCC versus the Constellation (1989)

The fighting in southern Angola in August 1986

The SWA/Namibia operational area

RENAMO attacks in Mozambique

Provinces of Mozambique

Railway diplomacy

Mugabes war in Mozambique

Hostage states: Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland

Main areas of unrest

The new SADF defence perimeter 19891990

Black homelands

Africas first world war

In my books on wars, most people tried to hinder or occasionally shoot me rather than assist me. Yet I could not have spent so many enjoyable years on the sub-continent unless generous locals gave me a regular helping hand.

Jack Spence inspired me as an undergraduate to study southern Africa over fifty years ago and we are still friends. Jenny Shaw, also a student taught by Jack, published two of my early books when she was at Brasseys. Peter McLaughlin was a friend in Rhodesia (and in the same regiment), not least when we wrote Chimurenga together. Ariston Chambati of ZAPU was a reliable and regular guide on African politics. Ken Flower and his two charming daughters were always kind to me, as were the Whaley family in what was then Rhodesia. Fred van der Merwe, thank you for believing in me enough to publish my first four books on Africa.