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Mad Dog Killers - The Story of a Congo Mercenary (Paperback)
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Mad Dog Killers - The Story of a Congo Mercenary (Paperback)
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During that long, hot summer of 1964, Ivan Smith, a mercenary
volunteer in the Armee 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. About the Author Ivan
Smith was born 1941 in Fort Victoria, Rhodesia. He grew up on a
farm before doing his national service after leaving school in
1958. After some cowboy and mining work he spent two years in
London and Copenhagen. In 1964 he signed up for a six-month
contract as a mercenary in the Congo. He joined the British South
Africa Police in 1965 and served fourteen years in the paramilitary
Support Unit and the Police Anti-Terrorist Unit during the
protracted Rhodesian 'bush war'. He emigrated to South Africa in
1984 where he worked in the security department at the University
of Cape for 16 years. A lover of hunting and fishing, he has
written for various outdoor magazines for over 40 years. He lives
in the small village of Joubertina in the Western Cape of South
Africa.
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