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Description
In the immediacy of its impact, and the startling clarity of its descriptive detail ( throughout the Congolese Civil War ), this book grips the reader like a Hitchcock thriller.
Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Canvas finish, Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special features | Dedicated copy, Slightly damaged dust jacket |
| Conditions | Old, like new |
| Number of pages | 255 |
| Published date | 1970 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 14 x 21 x 3 cm |
| Author | Charles Kearey & Carel Birkby |
| Editor | COLLINS |
What's this all about?
All civil wars are savage, but few, if any, can have equalled the Congolese in its ferocity. To John Gibson, however, a former R.A.F. pilot finding it hard to make both ends meet in South Africa, £1500 a month for flying missions with Tshombe's Air Force seemed a handsome recompense for the risks involved. When his war - time friend, Tubby Sanders, threw in the additional bait of a cache of germanium worth some £200,000 awaiting rescue in the jungle, Gibson's last doubts were resolved. And so he was plunged into the brutal inferno of war in Katanga. ( ... )
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