ANC's War Against Apartheid

Stephen Davis is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. A Brief History of the Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Armed Struggle2. "I Am Not Prepared to Answer at This Stage": History, Evidence and the Mamre Camp, December 26–30, 19623. The Sight of Battle: Visuality, History, and Representations of the Wankie Campaign, July 31–September 8, 19674. Losing the Plot: Mystery, Narrativity and Investigation in Novo Catengue, May 1977–March 19795. Everyday Life during Wartime: Experience, Modes of Writing, and the Underground in Cape Town During the Long Decade of the 1980sConclusion: Making the Struggle Concrete: Nationalist Historiography at Freedom ParkAppendicesBibliographyIndex

"This is an important and timely study, highly readable, solidly researched, and well written. It provides a fascinating and provocative engagement for those interested in histories of liberation, armed struggles, and informal armed formations."—Nicky Rousseau, University of the Western Cape"Stephen Davis charts new territory in a bold and lively fashion. Apart from furthering our knowledge and understanding of MK, he contributes significantly to scholarship on liberation movements more broadly. Essential reading."—Gary Baines, author of South Africa's Border War"The 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