Back to Angola by Paul Morris

Back to Angola by Paul Morris

In 1987, Paul Morris went to Angola as a reluctant conscript soldier, where he experienced the fear and ?lth of war. Twenty-?ve years later, in 2012, Paul returned to Angola, and embarked on a 1500-kilometre cycle trip, solo and unsupported, across the country. His purpose was to see Angola in peacetime, to replace the war map in his mind with a more contemporary peace map, to exorcise the ghosts of war once and for all. Shifting skilfully between present and past, Back to Angola chronicles Paul's epic journey, from Cuito Cuanavale to the remnants of his unit's base in northern Namibia, and vividly recreates his experiences as a young soldier caught up in a war in a foreign land. Along the way, the book provides thought-provoking re?ections on childhood, masculinity, violence, trauma and friendship. Back to Angola is an honest, intelligent and deeply moving account of war and its effects on an individual mind, a generation of people, and the psyche and landscape of a country.

Paul Morris was conscripted into the SADF just before his nineteenth birthday and trained as an infantry soldier in Bloemfontein. On the border he was posted to the well-known 61 Mechanised Battalion Group. Since then, Paul trained as a psychotherapist at

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ISBN 13	9781770225510
ISBN 10	177022551X
Title	Back to Angola
Author	Paul Morris
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House South Africa
Year published	2014-03-05
Number of pages	272
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