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Equally courageous, equally deadly, the British mercenaries in Bosnia have a story to tell as amazing as The One That Got Away, but a story without official blessing. War Dogs follows the fortunes of a gang of eight British mercenaries, a mixed bunch, old and cynical, young and naive, mean and psychotic, two idealists, and the rest just in it for the money. Each of these rogue warriors has his own special skills, strengths and weaknesses, and are all tested in an increasingly terrifying and desperate series of engagements with the enemy. Both sides fight dirty; this is an insiders account of the war in Bosnia that goes far beyond what we read in the newspapers. Not all of them make it back to Britain; one boy with no military experience has told his mother he is working in Eurodisney, and she only finds out the truth when he comes back in a box.
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Keith Cory-Jones was born in 1940 in Bristol, where he still lives. His career to date has included such diverse activities as sales and marketing, antique dealing, exhibition promoting, military equipment distribution and a lengthy spell as a photographer, before settling for writing as a full-time occupation. This book was completed despite intricate communication problems with country-hopping mercenaries who phone him in the dead of night with mortars playing in the background, and the unwelcome interruptions from Kelly, his boxer dog who strongly objected to her walk periods being delayed.
This is a compelling narrative of a wild bunch of mercenaries working in Bosnia, told in the language of the men who are fighting and dying for a cause which is not their own.
Are they psychotic killers? Courageous heroes fighting for the underdog? Professionals doing the only job they know how to do? Cowboys out for the fast buck? Or just bloody fools?
To Judith
For whom every day is a battle...
by
| 66: | lightweight and disposable anti-tank rocket launcher |
| AK-47: | Kalashnikov assault rifle (see also Klash) |
| APC: | armoured personnel carrier |
| Arkanoci: | Arkans men (Serb nationalist militia commander) |
| Armbrust: | portable anti-tank system with no backblast |
| basha: | single square sheet of material used for sleeping shelter |
| beasting: | military slang term for a beating |
| bergan: | military term for rucksack |
| berm: | tank entrenchment |
| big four: | minimum information given to the enemy (name, rank, serial number and birth date) |
| bivvy: | waterproof sleeping bag cover or term for settling down for the night (to bivvy down) |
| blow and go: | detonate explosives and depart in haste |
| brew-up: | hot drink |
| BSA: | Bosnian-Serb army |
| camo: | camouflage face paint or combat clothing |
| cam up: | to apply face paint |
| Chetnik: | Serbian irregulars (general term) |
| chinstrap: | army term for a state of exhaustion |
| chopper: | helicopter (general term) |
| claymore mine: | area protection anti-personnel mine |
| COP: | covert operations vest |
| CP: | checkpoint |
| Danner: | brand name for expensive and very desirable military boots |
| DEA: | US Drug Enforcement Administration |
| DPM: | disrupted pattern material (camouflage) |
| E&E: | escape and evasion |
| ethnic cleansing: | racial or religiously motivated killing |
| FFD: | first field dressing |
| FIBUA: | fighting in built-up areas |
| flak jacket: | upper-body armour |
| FRAG: | fragmenting |
| gat: | weapon (American underworld use; from Gatling gun) |
| gig: | a contract or mission |
| GPMG: | general purpose machine gun |
| GSG-9: | German special forces |
| HEAT: | high-explosive anti-tank (explosive detonates at critical distance before impact and penetrates armour plating) |
| HEP: | high-explosive plastic |
| HESH: | high-explosive squash-head (explosive spreads on target surface before detonating) |
| Hind: | Soviet attack helicopter / gunship |
| HOS: | extremist Croatian militia |
| Huey: | US helicopter used extensively in Vietnam |
| HVO: | Bosnian-Croatian militia |
| ID: | identity document or card |
| JNA: | Yugoslavian national army |
| keffudle: | soldier-speak for a conference |
| Klash: | Kalashnikov assault rifle (see also AK-47) |
| klicks: | kilometres |
| LUP: | lying-up point |
| mag: | weapons magazine containing ammunition |
| Makarov: | Soviet pistol |
| merc: | mercenary soldier |
| MG-42 | pre-1945 German 7.92 machine gun |
| MiG: | Soviet fighter/bomber |
| MoD: | Ministry of Defence |
| Mortar: | Light, portable infantry support weapon |
| NVA: | night-vision equipment |
| OP: | observation post |
| PE: | plastic explosive |
| phos: | phosphorus grenade |
| pinkie: | long-wheelbase Land Rover |
| porridge: | period of confinement or capture |
| RPG-7: | hand-held rocket launcher |
| RPK: | AK-47 with larger and longer barrel |
| Rupert/Rodneys: | term used by the lower ranks for an officer |
| RV: | rendezvous point |
| SA-80: | automatic weapon in current use by British army |
| SAM: | surface-to-air missile |
| Serbo-Croat: | language in general use in former Yugoslavia |
| shemagh: | type of shawl used by people in the Middle East |
| shoot and scoot: | attack and get out fast |
| Skorpion: | Czech 7.62mm machine pistol |
| sneaky beaky: | slang term for covert operation |
| SOP: | standard operating procedure |
| SPG: | self-propelled gun |
| squaddie: | soldier |
| stag: | sentry duty |
| stripes and pips: | visible indication of commission/authority |
| T-55: | Soviet tank; entered production in 1944 |
| T-72: | Soviet tank; entered production in 1972 |
| tab: | fast march over a long distance; often with full pack |
| tiger stripe: | method of applying camouflage paint to skin |
| TMA-2: | Yugoslavian-manufactured plastic-bodied mine |
| Trislander: | light aircraft requiring minimal take-off/landing area |
| UN: | United Nations |
| UNPROFOR: | United Nations protection force |
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