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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe ANC's War against Apartheid is a masterful corrective to contemporary grand narratives about the military struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Its value and sheer usefulness for scholars and advanced students working on southern African political history cannot be overestimated.
* American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. A Brief History of the Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Armed Struggle
2. "I Am Not Prepared to Answer at This Stage": History, Evidence and the Mamre Camp, December 26–30, 1962
3. The Sight of Battle: Visuality, History, and Representations of the Wankie Campaign, July 31–September 8, 1967
4. Losing the Plot: Mystery, Narrativity and Investigation in Novo Catengue, May 1977–March 1979
5. Everyday Life during Wartime: Experience, Modes of Writing, and the Underground in Cape Town During the Long Decade of the 1980s
Conclusion: Making the Struggle Concrete: Nationalist Historiography at Freedom Park
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
