Ebook: Mad dog killers: the story of a Congo mercenary
Author: Smith Ivan
- Tags: Mercenary troops, Mercenary troops--Congo (Democratic Republic), Biographies, Personal narratives, History, Smith Ivan -- 1941-, Mercenary troops -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography, Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War 1960-1965 -- Personal narratives, Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Helion and Company
- City: Congo (Democratic Republic
- Language: English
- epub
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.
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