Ebook: Somalia unending turmoil, since 1975

About the Author: Al J. Venter is a specialist military writer and has had 50 books published. He started his career with Genevas Interavia Group, then owners of International Defence Review, to cover military and related developments in the Middle East and Africa. Venter has been writing on these and related issues such as guerrilla warfare, insurgency, the Middle East and conflict in general for half a century. He was involved with Janes Information Group for more than 30 years and was a stringer for the BBC, NBC News (New York) as well as Londons Daily Express and Sunday Express. He branched into television work in the early 1980s and produced more than 100 documentaries, many of which were internationally flighted. His one-hour film, Africas Killing Fields (on the Ugandan civil war), was shown nationwide in the United States on the PBS network. Other films include an hour-long programme on the fifth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, as well as AIDS: The African Connection, nominated for Chinas Pink Magnolia Award. His last major book was Portugals Guerrilla Wars in Africa, nominated in 2013 for New Yorks Arthur Goodzeit military history book award. It has gone into three editions, including translation into Portuguese.