José Augusto Matos
José Matos is an independent researcher in military history in Portugal with primary interest in operations of the Portuguese Air Force during colonial wars in Africa, especially in Guinea. He is a regular contributor to numerous European magazines on military aviation and naval subjects, and has collaborated in the major project ‘The Air Force at the end of the Empire’, published in Portugal in 2018. Recently he has written two books in Portuguese, one on the former Portuguese regime's relations with South Africa and the other on the attack against Guinea-Conakry in 1970.
Books
- Sanctuary Lost Volume 1 : The Air War for Guinea 1961-1967 Author
- Mar Verde : The Portuguese Amphibious Assault on Conakry, 1970 Author
- War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 4 : Angolan and Cuban Air Forces, 1985-1988 Author
- War of Intervention in Angola Volume 3 : Angolan and Cuban Air Forces 1975-1985 Author
