1985, ISBN: 0283992964

[EAN: 9780283992964], [PU: (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985) 0283992964], POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA. SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. MERCENARIES MILITARY HISTORY, Jacket, 8vo; original pale brown boards,… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780283992964], [PU: (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985) 0283992964], POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA. SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. MERCENARIES MILITARY HISTORY, Jacket, 8vo; original pale brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + (ii) + 374, incl. index; plates; maps. Dustwrapper partially sunned and a little edgeworn; gift inscription to front free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges and endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. "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 has come to accept mercenary soldiers. Indeed some of their leaders have become almost household names - Rolf Steiner, Bob Denard, 'Colonel Callan' (nom de geurre of Costas Georghiou), 'Black Jack' Schramme and, the most famous of them all, 'Mad Mike Hoare, whose luck finally ran out in the Seychelles. In this cool informative and highly readable account Anthony Mockler tells the story of the quarter of a century that has passed since the Katanga days. He places each episode - whether violent, tragic or farcical - in its context, both human and political, and he places the mercenary phenomenon itself against its historical background.", Books<

1985, ISBN: 9780283992964

(London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985) 0283992964. 8vo; original pale brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + (ii) + 374, incl. index; plates;… Mehr…

(London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985) 0283992964. 8vo; original pale brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + (ii) + 374, incl. index; plates; maps. Dustwrapper partially sunned and a little edgeworn; gift inscription to front free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges and endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. "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 has come to accept mercenary soldiers. Indeed some of their leaders have become almost household names - Rolf Steiner, Bob Denard, 'Colonel Callan' (nom de geurre of Costas Georghiou), 'Black Jack' Schramme and, the most famous of them all, 'Mad Mike Hoare, whose luck finally ran out in the Seychelles. In this cool informative and highly readable account Anthony Mockler tells the story of the quarter of a century that has passed since the Katanga days. He places each episode - whether violent, tragic or farcical - in its context, both human and political, and he places the mercenary phenomenon itself against its historical background." ., (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985) 0283992964, 0<