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Photographs © as individually credited

Front cover: ‘David meets Goliath’: An original photograph depicting the inferior SADF armoured vehicle, a

Ratel

90mm, capturing and destroying the more superior Soviet T-54/55 tank (100mm) during Operation

Askari

early

1984 inside Angola. This photograph epitomizes the conflict. Many more such encounters followed later at

Cuito

Cuanavale.

South African Department of Defence Documentation Centre

ISBN 978-1-920143-67-1 (South Africa)

ISBN 978-1-907677-77-9 (UK)

EPUB ISBN: 9781909384699

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