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By: Stephen Rookes

ISBN: 9781915070548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2022
Publisher: Helion & Company
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The build-up and operational history of the Force Publique - a paramilitary force established by King Leopold II to secure the Congo Free State, in 1885 - including its deployments elsewhere in Africa, during the First and Second World War, in the Sudan, East Africa, and in Ethiopia.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Rookes

ISBN: 9781914059063
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2021
Publisher: Helion & Company
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An examination of the clandestine role of the CIA and British mercenaries in Angolas civil war of the 1970s.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Rookes

ISBN: 9781913336240
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 15th December 2020
Publisher: Helion & Company
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The little know story of the CIA-recruited Cuban exiles' covert operation in the Congo during the 1960s. It relies on their personal testimonies, on government archives, on declassified documents.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Rookes

ISBN: 9781913336233
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 28th December 2020
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Ripe for Rebellion is the first of two volumes examining the so-called Congo Crisis.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Rookes

ISBN: 9781804510148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2023
Publisher: Helion & Company
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This first volume of a three-part series on the First Indochina War centers on the period between 1946-1949. A time when tensions between East and West were on the rise, the Indochina War was a colonial conflict that laid the foundations for America's war in Vietnam.