Mad Dog Killers. The Story of a Congo Mercenary
by Smith, Ivan
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1920143513
- ISBN 13
- 9781920143510
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Solihull: Helion & Company / Pinetown: 30 degrees South, 2012) 9781920143510. 233 x 155 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 159 + (i); photographs. Fine condition. "During that long, hot summer of 1964, Ivan Smith, a mercenary volunteer in the Armée Nationale Congolais, came to witness and understand fear, the law of the jungle and the lust for killing that permeates Africa. A member of 'Mad Mike' Hoare's 5 Commando Group, he and his companions were nominally soldiers but there was little in the way of campaigns, tactics or discipline. Of conventional warfare there was none. Loyalty to country or unit did not exist; the fear of death was the only commander. Many more mercenaries died from accidental discharge, in a drunken shoot-out or from a bullet in the back than were ever killed in action by Simba rebels. Half a century later, Ivan Smith re-lives the nightmare that was the Congo." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13509
- Title
- Mad Dog Killers. The Story of a Congo Mercenary
- Author
- Smith, Ivan
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 1920143513
- ISBN 13
- 9781920143510
- Publisher
- (Solihull: Helion & Company / Pinetown: 30 degrees South, 2012) 9781920143510
- Keywords
- Guerilla warfare. Mercenaries. Mike Hoare Military History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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