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Al J Venter

    November 25, 1938

    Al J Venter is a war correspondent and documentary filmmaker whose extensive career has taken him to the heart of numerous global conflicts. His reporting from Africa's and the Middle East's most harrowing wars, from the Nigerian Civil War to the turmoil in Lebanon, demonstrates an unflinching commitment to chronicling the brutal realities of combat. Venter's work is marked by its raw realism and a keen insight into human resilience and brutality in the face of violence. Through his books and documentaries, he offers essential testimony on pivotal moments in modern history.

    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

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      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

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      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

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

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

      Biafra Genocide
    • 2018

      Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      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

      • 136 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      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

      • 136 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

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

      Lebanon