The New Mercenaries The History Of The Mercenary From The Congo To The Seychelles
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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.
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.
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 Seychelles Affair
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Author : Mike Hoare
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 1986
The Seychelles Affair written by Mike Hoare and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
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.
Mercenaries
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Author : Guy Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1999-11-26
Mercenaries written by Guy Arnold and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-26 with History categories.
Mercenaries have been employed as auxiliaries since early times, but in the post-1945 world they have operated, almost exclusively, in weak Third World countries. From Columbia to the Congo, Angola to Papua New Guinea, Cambodia to Nicaragua, they have appeared: training the drug cartel armies, assisting rebellions or civil wars, acting as the agents of the major powers. In the Congo crisis (1960-1965) they earned an especially unsavory reputation for greed, brutality and racism; it is a reputation that has stuck to the mercenary and on the whole justly. During the 1990s a new phenomenon has emerged in the form of the mercenary corporations such as Executive Outcomes or Sandline. These corporations offer a range of military expertise and weaponry, have the covert support of governments in the countries from which they come and are rapidly becoming a power to themselves, ultimately far more dangerous than the individual freebooters of the past.
Mercenaries In Asymmetric Conflicts
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Author : Scott Fitzsimmons
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
Mercenaries In Asymmetric Conflicts written by Scott Fitzsimmons and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Fitzsimmons argues that small mercenary groups must maintain a superior culture to successfully engage and defeat larger and better-equipped opponents.
Mercenaries
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Author : Anthony Mockler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Mercenaries 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 1969 with Mercenary troops categories.
Someone Else S War
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Author : Anthony Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Collins
Release Date : 2000
Someone Else S War written by Anthony Rogers and has been published by Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Based on extensive interviews with mercenaries of many nationalities, this volume reveals how white mercenaries came to play a key role in the struggle for the Congo, and how the end of the war in Vietnam coincided with the start of the war in Rhodesia, attracting a new generation of mercenary soldiers. The story moves on from the Angolan debacle of 1976 to a succession of operations in Africa and South America, an attempted coup in Malta, and to the mercenaries that flocked to the former-Yugoslavia as the Balkan conflict worsened.