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Wild Geese At War : A Pictural History of 5 Commando in the Congo 1964-67 [ KEN CONBOY ]

Back in February when i had the chance to visit Pak Ken Conboy at his home, he showed me several original 5 Commando relics and mentioned that he was working on a new book about the unit.

It’s great to finally see it in print!!

Wild Geese at War: A Pictorial History of 5 Commando in the Congo, 1964–67 — a limited-print release by Ken Conboy.

Wild Geese at War: A Pictorial History of 5 Commando in the Congo, 1964–67 — a limited-print release by Ken Conboy.

Sinopsis

By the close of 1964, mercenaries had done the impossible. Battling hundreds of kilometers along jungle trails in the heart of Africa, they had all but stopped cold a communist-inspired rebellion on the cusp of seizing power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along the way, they liberated hundreds of expatriate missionaries and settlers that had been taken hostage by an insurgent force that reveled in murder, rape, and, all too often, cannibalism. This should have been reason for cheer. Instead, it was cause for moral outrage in places like Foggy Bottom and Whitehall. The mercenaries, after all, were white troops fighting in black Africa. Even more controversial, they mostly hailed from minority-governed South Africa and Rhodesia. There was also the matter of their discipline, or lack thereof. George McMurtrie Godley, the US ambassador to the Congo known for speaking his mind, dismissed the hired guns as little more than “an uncontrolled lot of toughs…who consider looting or safe-cracking fully within their prerogatives.”

Sinopsis By the close of 1964, mercenaries had done the impossible. Battling hundreds of kilometers along jungle trails in the heart of Africa, they had all but stopped cold a communist-inspired rebellion on the cusp of seizing power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along the way, they liberated hundreds of expatriate missionaries and settlers that had been taken hostage by an insurgent force that reveled in murder, rape, and, all too often, cannibalism. This should have been reason for cheer. Instead, it was cause for moral outrage in places like Foggy Bottom and Whitehall. The mercenaries, after all, were white troops fighting in black Africa. Even more controversial, they mostly hailed from minority-governed South Africa and Rhodesia. There was also the matter of their discipline, or lack thereof. George McMurtrie Godley, the US ambassador to the Congo known for speaking his mind, dismissed the hired guns as little more than “an uncontrolled lot of toughs…who consider looting or safe-cracking fully within their prerogatives.” wild geese at war
Sinopsis By the close of 1964, mercenaries had done the impossible. Battling hundreds of kilometers along jungle trails in the heart of Africa, they had all but stopped cold a communist-inspired rebellion on the cusp of seizing power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along the way, they liberated hundreds of expatriate missionaries and settlers that had been taken hostage by an insurgent force that reveled in murder, rape, and, all too often, cannibalism. This should have been reason for cheer. Instead, it was cause for moral outrage in places like Foggy Bottom and Whitehall. The mercenaries, after all, were white troops fighting in black Africa. Even more controversial, they mostly hailed from minority-governed South Africa and Rhodesia. There was also the matter of their discipline, or lack thereof. George McMurtrie Godley, the US ambassador to the Congo known for speaking his mind, dismissed the hired guns as little more than “an uncontrolled lot of toughs…who consider looting or safe-cracking fully within their prerogatives.” wild geese at war
Sinopsis By the close of 1964, mercenaries had done the impossible. Battling hundreds of kilometers along jungle trails in the heart of Africa, they had all but stopped cold a communist-inspired rebellion on the cusp of seizing power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along the way, they liberated hundreds of expatriate missionaries and settlers that had been taken hostage by an insurgent force that reveled in murder, rape, and, all too often, cannibalism. This should have been reason for cheer. Instead, it was cause for moral outrage in places like Foggy Bottom and Whitehall. The mercenaries, after all, were white troops fighting in black Africa. Even more controversial, they mostly hailed from minority-governed South Africa and Rhodesia. There was also the matter of their discipline, or lack thereof. George McMurtrie Godley, the US ambassador to the Congo known for speaking his mind, dismissed the hired guns as little more than “an uncontrolled lot of toughs…who consider looting or safe-cracking fully within their prerogatives.” wild geese at war
Sinopsis By the close of 1964, mercenaries had done the impossible. Battling hundreds of kilometers along jungle trails in the heart of Africa, they had all but stopped cold a communist-inspired rebellion on the cusp of seizing power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along the way, they liberated hundreds of expatriate missionaries and settlers that had been taken hostage by an insurgent force that reveled in murder, rape, and, all too often, cannibalism. This should have been reason for cheer. Instead, it was cause for moral outrage in places like Foggy Bottom and Whitehall. The mercenaries, after all, were white troops fighting in black Africa. Even more controversial, they mostly hailed from minority-governed South Africa and Rhodesia. There was also the matter of their discipline, or lack thereof. George McMurtrie Godley, the US ambassador to the Congo known for speaking his mind, dismissed the hired guns as little more than “an uncontrolled lot of toughs…who consider looting or safe-cracking fully within their prerogatives.” wild geese at war
Sinopsis By the close of 1964, mercenaries had done the impossible. Battling hundreds of kilometers along jungle trails in the heart of Africa, they had all but stopped cold a communist-inspired rebellion on the cusp of seizing power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along the way, they liberated hundreds of expatriate missionaries and settlers that had been taken hostage by an insurgent force that reveled in murder, rape, and, all too often, cannibalism. This should have been reason for cheer. Instead, it was cause for moral outrage in places like Foggy Bottom and Whitehall. The mercenaries, after all, were white troops fighting in black Africa. Even more controversial, they mostly hailed from minority-governed South Africa and Rhodesia. There was also the matter of their discipline, or lack thereof. George McMurtrie Godley, the US ambassador to the Congo known for speaking his mind, dismissed the hired guns as little more than “an uncontrolled lot of toughs…who consider looting or safe-cracking fully within their prerogatives.” wild geese at war

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