Operations Leopard and Red Bean - KOLWEZI 1978. French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire
Product code 9781912390595
Series Africa @ War 32
Publisher/Brand Helion & Company
Author Daniel Kowalczuk
Format a4
No. Pages 80
Version Soft cover
Language English
Category Aviationbooks
Subcategory World Wars Books » War in Africa
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This book provides a history of the roots of FNLC (Front for the National Liberation of the Congo: ex-Katanga Gendarmerie) in Angola and Zaire, political situation under Mobutu regime, FNLC incursions into Zaire border since 1977 ("Shaba Wars I and II") and subsequent hostage taking in mining town of Kolwezi. The author describes the subsequent French Foreign Legion and Belgian Para Commando airborne operation and freeing of the hostages, together with practical destruction of the FNLC as fighting force.
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