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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