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Congo Mercenary
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Author : Michael Hoare
language : en
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Release Date : 2022-11-14
Congo Mercenary written by Michael Hoare and has been published by Greenhill Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘I make no apologies for being a mercenary soldier. Quite the reverse. I am proud to have led 5 Commando. I am proud to have fought shoulder to shoulder with the toughest and bravest band of men it has ever been my honor to command. I am proud that they stood when all else failed.’ In July 1964, four years after gaining independence from Belgium, the Democratic Republic of the Congo came under threat from an armed rebellion that spread rapidly through the country. To suppress the rebels and bring the unrest and bloodshed in the country under control, Congolese officials enlisted the help of mercenary leader Mike Hoare. Working alongside military officials, Hoare assembled a band of several hundred men that became known as ‘5 Commando’. In Congo Mercenary, Hoare tells the story of the role that these men played in the rebellion, describing in gripping detail how this band of mercenaries were recruited, trained, and how they swept through the country. His team undertook four campaigns in just 18 months during which they fought rebels, liberated Stanleyville, freed European hostages and brought order back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hoare’s experiences in the Congo and his involvement in suppressing the Simba rebellion were hugely significant from a political and a military standpoint. His influence, however, did not stop there. This account of his time in the Congo was first published in 1967 and had a huge cultural impact, as well, contributing to the glorification of the mercenary lifestyle in magazines and pulp novels, and even inspiring the 1978 war film The Wild Geese starring Richard Burton and Roger Moore.
Congo Mercenary
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Author : Mike Hoare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Congo Mercenary written by Mike Hoare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Congo (Democratic Republic) categories.
The Road To Kalamata
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Author : Mike Hoare
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 1989-10-15
The Road To Kalamata written by Mike Hoare and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The famous adventurer and mercenary recounts his exploits during the Congo Crisis in this Cold War military memoir. At the close of 1960, the newly formed Independent State of Katanga in central Africa recruited Thomas “Mad Mike” Hoare and his 4 Commando team of mercenary soldiers to suppress a rebellion by Baluba warriors known to torture the enemy soldiers they captured. In The Road to Kalamata, Hoare tells the story of 4 Commando and its evolution from a loose assembly of individuals into a highly organized professional fighting unit. Hoare’s memoir presents a compelling portrait of the men who sell their military skills for money. They are, in his words, “a breed of men which has almost vanished from the face of the earth." Originally published in 1989, this edition of The Road to Kalamata features a new foreword by the 20th century's most famous mercenary and one of its most eloquent storytellers.
The Congo Mercenary
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Author : Stephen John Gordon Clarke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Congo Mercenary written by Stephen John Gordon Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Congo (Democratic Republic) categories.
Congo Warriors
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Author : Mike Hoare
language : en
Publisher: Paladin Press
Release Date : 2008-04-01
Congo Warriors written by Mike Hoare and has been published by Paladin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Colonel Mike Hoare commanded a unit of mercenary soldiers during the armed uprising in the Congo in 1964 and 1965, which he described in detail in his previous book, Congo Mercenary. In this follow-up account of those war-torn days spent fighting the Simba rebels, Colonel Hoare focuses on the courage and ambitions, the lives and deaths of those men under his command. In an exclusive new foreword and epilogue for this Paladin reprint, which the author has described as his favorite of all the books he has written, Colonel Hoare provides an unparalleled understanding of mercenary action in Africa, the involvement of the CIA in such activities and new insight into the minds and hearts of mercenary soldiers. Congo Warriors is not to be missed by anyone interested in combat, mercenaries, warriors or Africa.
Mercenary Commander
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Author : Jerry Puren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Mercenary Commander written by Jerry Puren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Congo (Democratic Republic) categories.
The Belgian Congo: A verdant area spanning the central regions of Africa - giant, somnambulant, beautiful and menacing. In 1960 the Belgian authorities, who had for years ruled the Congo with a stern hand, opted to grant independence to the country's hugely diverse population. On June 30, 1960, the Congo became independent. Within five days the country had fallen into four squabbling parts - the central government in the old capital of Leopoldville, a rebel movement in the eastern capital of Stanleyville, an independent republic of Kasai in the South West and an independent Katanga in the Southern regions with its capital at Elizabethville. United Nations troops were deployed in a 'peace keeping' role and after three wars succeeded in quashing the Katangese coup. But they had hardly finished their task when rebel 'sambas' in the Eastern Congo began sweeping across the Congo with the intention of capturing Leopoldville.
Mad Dog Killers
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Author : Ivan Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Mad Dog Killers written by Ivan Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 and discipline. Of conventional warfare there was none. Loyalty to country or unit did not exist and the fear of death was the only commander. Many more mercenaries died from an accidental discharge, in a drunken shoot-out or from a bullet in the back than were ever killed in action by Simba rebels. Nearly half a century later, Ivan Smith re-lives the nightmare that was the Congo.
The New Mercenaries
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Author : Anthony Mockler
language : en
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Release Date : 1987
The New Mercenaries written by Anthony Mockler and has been published by Paragon House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Technology & Engineering categories.
"Human vermin," African leaders called them. When mercenaries suddenly reappeared on the twentieth century scene in Katanga in 1960, amazement, dismay, and uproar followed. Since that disconcerting revival of an apparent anachronism, the world came to accept mercenary soldiers. Indeed, some of their leaders became household names -- Rolf Steiner, Bob Denard, Black Jack Schramme, and "Mad Mike" Hoare, who luck finally ran out in the Seychelles. After beginning with a brief history of the mercenary soldier, Mockler continues with a series of lengthy, interconnected chapters which describe political upheavals in South Africa and which chronicle the part hired soldiers have played in these events.
Katanga 1960 63
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Author : Christopher Othen
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2015-09-07
Katanga 1960 63 written by Christopher Othen and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-07 with History categories.
In King Leopold II's infamous Congo 'Free' State at the turn of the century, severed hands became a form of currency. But some in the Belgian government had no sense of historical shame, as they connived for an independent Katanga state in 1960 to protect Belgian mining interests. What happened next was extraordinary. It was an extremely uneven battle. The UN fielded soldiers from twenty nations, America paid the bills, and the Soviets intrigued behind the scenes. Yet to everyone's surprise the new nation's rag-tag army of local gendarmes, jungle tribesmen and, controversially, European mercenaries, refused to give in. For two and a half years Katanga, the scrawniest underdog ever to fight a war, held off the world with guerrilla warfare, two-faced diplomacy and some shady financial backing. It even looked as if the Katangese might win. Katanga 1960–63 tells, for the first time, the full story of the Congolese province that declared independence and found itself at war with the world.
The New Mercenaries The History Of The Mercenary From The Congo To The Seychelles
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Author : Anthony Mockler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The New Mercenaries The History Of The Mercenary From The Congo To The Seychelles written by Anthony Mockler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.