Road To Kalamata: A Congo Mercenary's Personal Memoir - Softcover

Hoare, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581606419 ISBN 13: 9781581606416

Publisher: Paladin Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Road to Kalamata is the real-life adventure story the 4 Commando team of mercenary soldiers, as told by their leader, Col. ‘Mad’ Mike Hoare. At the close of 1960, the newly formed independent state of Katanga in central Africa recruited Hoare and his team to suppress a rebellion by the Baluba, a fierce tribe of warriors rumoured to be cannibals and known to torture and dismember any enemy soldiers unlucky enough to be captured. The events recounted in this book occurred in the Congo during the Katanga campaign of 1961. With insight that only an officer with extensive battlefield experience can bring to this subject, Colonel Hoare chronicles the metamorphosis of 4 Commando from a loose assembly of individuals into a highly organized fighting unit, while also taking the reader inside the minds and hearts of men who sell their military skills for money. What emerges is a compelling and complex portrait of genuine adventurers,"a breed of men which," writes Hoare, "has almost vanished from the face of the earth." Paladin Press is pleased to make available once again this engaging, colorful and thoughtful account, originally published in 1989, complete with a new foreword by the 20th century’s most famous mercenary and one of its most eloquent storytellers.

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About the Author:

Mike Hoare is one of the 20th century's most famous adventurers, and clearly one of its most talented scribes. Hoare was born in India to Irish parents and educated in England. He emigrated to Africa in 1948 and fell in love with the land and its people. Though he is best known as a mercenary leader in the Congo and the Seychelles, his two new books describe his nonmilitary adventures on land and sea: Mike Hoare's Adventures in Africa and Three Years with Sylvia .

About this edition

• Publisher: Paladin Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1581606419
• ISBN 13: 9781581606416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152