Penulis

Ken Conboy

Tahun

2026

Penerbit

Hendropriyono Strategic Consulting

Jumlah Halaman

316

Ukuran

14,5 x 21 cm

ISBN

000-000-00000-0-0

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.”