The MPLA were kind of the whipping boys of that conflict, huh. Didn't help that UNITA under Savimbi had South African and American backing. The MPLA got - ironically - Nigeria.

And then the FNLA just kind of gets lost in the shuffle historically speaking.

I've always been more interested in the political picture of that era (than the military one) from the Nigerian point of view. What can I say, I'm biased and it was our brief but golden Giant-of-Africa-phase :D

Still a damn good read; sobering and informative.