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Geraghty, Tony.
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Soldiers of fortune -- History -- 20th century.
Mercenary troops -- History -- 20th century.
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Soldiers of fortune : a history of the mercenary in modern warfare / Tony Geraghty.
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Geraghty, Tony.
New York : Pegasus Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2009.
Subjects
Soldiers of fortune -- History -- 20th century.
Mercenary troops -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781605980485 :
160598048X
Description:
xvii, 392 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
Contents:
Origins: "the business of America is business" -- Africa: they do things differently there -- Congo 1960-1: the unquiet spirit of Patrice Lumumba -- Congo 1964-7: the myth of the white giant -- Angola 1974-2002: a war for slow readers -- Yemen 1965-8: "do you fancy going into Yemen and burning the Migs?" -- Oman 1970-95: how the Sandhurst brotherhood saved a nation -- Afghanistan 1979-89: "the British will probably be most forthcoming" -- Nicaragua and elsewhere 1984-2006: spreading democracy, America's first war on terror -- Sierra Leone 1997-8: a less than ethical foreign policy -- Croatia 1995: America's junkyard dogs -- Iraq 2003-present: a licence to kill, in some circumstances -- Iraq 2005: the thirty-two-second ambush -- The online dialogues: grunts, muppets and the civvy bodycount -- Afghanistan 2001-future indefinite: in Talibs' fields the poppies blow -- Licensed to save: the unarmed warriors -- The Foreign Enlistment Act 1870-present: lying in state at Westminster -- Legal remedies, 1976-present: the utopian in pursuit of the uncontrollable -- The great reappraisal, 2006: dogs of war or pussycats of peace? -- Mr. Micawber's missing millions -- Epilogue: after RIO.
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