África Austral - ‘BLOODSONG ! - First hand accounts of a modern private army in action (Angola 1993-1995)’, de Jim Hooper - London 2002 - MUITO RARO;

 

África Austral - O relato da contratação do serviço dos mercenários Sul Africanos da EO (Executive Outcomes) pelo governo marxista do MPLA para combater o exército da UNITA…

‘BLOODSONG ! - First hand accounts of a modern private army in action 

(Angola 1993-1995)’ 

De Jim Hooper 

HarperCollins Publishers 

London 2002 

Livro de capas duras, sobrecapa, com 240 páginas, muito ilustrado e em muito bom estado de conservação. Excelente. 

De muito, muito difícil localização. 

MUITO, MUITO RARO. 

Da contracapa: 

“THE RISE AND FALL OF A PRIVATE ARMY 

‘EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES’ was the title of the most successful private army of modern times. In Angola, Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea, it stepped in while the UN revealed itself as little more than a debating society. But the motives of this mercenary army are open to question: was it more interested in protecting Sierra Leone's diamond mines than the people caught up in a savage guerilla war? What was the reality of a private war in the closing part of the twentiefh century?” 

O AUTOR: 

“Journalist Jim Hooper followed Executive Outcomes on operations all over Africa. Now he can reveal the incredible story of a well equipped mercenary army in action during the civil war in Angola between 1993 and 1995.

The author was priviliged to be able to interview many of the combatants themselves, and the recollections of these soldiers and pilots read more like film scripts. Did the ‘Soldiers of FORTUNE’ in this book fight for glory, money or simply excitement ? Judge for yourself.“ 

Do ÍNDICE: 

Foreword 

Colonel Hernnie Blaauw 

‘Carlos’ 

Juba Joubert 

LtCol Pine Pienaar 

LtCol ‘Ricardo’ 

Carl Alberts 

1. - Soyo 

2. - Completing the job 

3. - “Will you train our army?” 

4. - Developing the concept 

5. - Operarional planning 

6. - Eastern front HQ Saurimo 

7. - Western front Spearhead 

8. - Midnight extraction 

9. - Searching for the Recce Team 

10. - Camaxillo 

11. - Airstrikes and rumours 

12. - Mig-23 conversion 

13. - “Just then Charlie’s helicopter exploded” 

14. - Hennie assumes command 

15. - Cacolo taken 

16. - Fixed wing ops 

17. - River crossing 

18. - Casevacs and choppers 

19. - Mines and casevacs 

20. - Russian resupply 

21. - Gunfight at firiquich 

22. - Point 1032 

23. - Heavy fighting 

24. - Cafunfo captured 

25. - Digging in and consolidating 

26. - “I’ve been hit and the aircraft is burning” 

27. - “Get down Juba, they’re shooting SAMs at us” 

28. - Cacolo (again) 

29. - United Nations and Blue Barets 

Postcript 

Glossary 

Index 

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