Songs and Secrets - South Africa from Liberation to Governance

From the freezing streets of Moscow to the baking guerrilla training camps of Angola, Gilder's memoir of his years as an underground intelligence operative makes for compelling reading

About the author

Barry Gilder was born in South Africa in 1950. He went into exile in 1976, composed and sang struggle songs at anti-apartheid events in Europe and elsewhere, and served in the ANC's intelligence structures until his return to South Africa in 1991. He later became deputy head of the South African Secret Service. He is currently Director of Operations at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, a policy think tank set up by former senior leaders in the democratic government.

Summary

From the freezing streets of Moscow to the baking guerrilla training camps of Angola, Gilder's memoir of his years as an underground intelligence operative makes for compelling reading

Product details

• Authors: Barry Gilder, Gilder Barry
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9781849042376
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-237-6
• Dimensions: 218 mm x 150 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 607 g
• Illustrations: illustrations, Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Republic of South Africa, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, African History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), National liberation and independence