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BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR INCLUDE:
The Terror Fighters: Purnell, London
Report on Portugals War in Guin-Bissau: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Portugals Guerrilla War: Malherbe, Cape Town
Under the Indian Ocean: Harraps, London
Africa at War: Devin Adair, Connecticut
The Zambezi Salient: Devin Adair
Coloured: Profile of Two Million South Africans: Human & Rousseau, Cape Town
Africa Today: Macmillan
Underwater Seychelles: Cape Town
Handbook for Divers: Ashanti Publishers
Challenge: South Africa in the African Revolutionary Context: (Ed) Ashanti
Underwater Mauritius: Ashanti
The Second Underwater Handbook: Ashanti
Where to Dive: In Southern Africa and Off the Islands: Ashanti
War in Angola: Concorde, Hong Kong
The Chopper Boys: Helicopter Warfare in Africa: Stackpole Books (US), Greenhills (UK)
The Iraqi War Debrief: Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled: Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia
War Dog: Fighting Other Peoples Wars: Casemate
Irans Nuclear Option: Casemate Publishers, US and UK
Allahs Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons: Lyons Press, Connecticut.
Cops: Cheating Death: How One Man Saved the Lives of 3,000 Americans: Lyons
How South Africa Built Six Atom Bombs: Ashanti Publications, Cape Town
Dive South Africa: Ashanti, Cape Town/LAPA Publishers, Pretoria
Barrel of a Gun: Misspent Moments in Combat: Casemate Publishers US and UK
War Stories by Al Venter and Friends: Protea Books, Pretoria
Gunship Ace: The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot, Mercenary: Casemate and Protea Books
Shark Stories by Al Venter and Friends: Protea Books, Pretoria
African Stories by Al Venter and Friends: Protea Books, Pretoria
Portugals Guerrilla Wars in Africa 1961-1974: Helion, United Kingdom
Conflict Stories: Protea Books, Pretoria (2014)
Shipwreck Stories by Al Venter and Friends: Protea Books, Pretoria (2015)
NOVELS
Soldier of Fortune: W.H. Allen, London
To those of my friends and associates who have spent time in action as Hired Guns, fighting rebel insurgency and often mindless brutality in Africa, the Middle East, Asia as well as South and Central America. Their efforts to save lives and bring a measure of order to chaos have rarely been acknowledged, and then only grudgingly. A few brave men all didnt make it through.
AND
To my friend and comrade-in-arms Yves Debay, killed by a sniper in Aleppo, Syria on January 17, 2013. Like me, Yves was born in Africa, in Elizabethville in the Congo in 1954. We spent time together in several conflicts that included Rhodesia, the South African Border War and when the civil war in Beirut was at its worst, in Lebanon. Rest in peace my young friend.
Published in the United States of America and Great Britain in 2014 by
CASEMATE PUBLISHERS
908 Darby Road, Havertown, PA 19083
and
10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW
Copyright 2014 Al J. Venter
ISBN 978-1-61200-244-6
Digital edition: ISBN 978-1-61200-245-3
Cataloging-in-publication data is available from the Library of Congress and the British Library.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing.
Cover Images: Courtesy of Cobus Claassens
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Sometimes in Africa a heavy machine-gun can be as effective as ten tanks elsewhere
Lt-Col Tim Spicer, former chief executive of Sandline and
author of Unorthodox Soldier
If we want to put the world to rights and were not prepared to risk our own forces in doing so, then we should consider the employment of private security forces If the South African mercenaries had been allowed to stay in Sierra Leone from 96 onwards, a lot of children would still have their hands today.
William Shawcross, author of Deliver Us From Evil on
ABC TV August 29, 2000
If there is a lesson to be learnt from merc work its this you are on your own. If you put your trust in others or possibly rely on outside forces for salvation, youre buying yourself a one-way ticket to the oblivion of a mercs limbo: a jail if youre lucky, and if youre not, a bullet in the back of your neck in some godforsaken backwater
Soldier of Fortune magazine: June 1987
Military companies are not a passing phenomenon. Military force can stabilize a crisis, challenging the view that negotiation in the absence of coercion is sufficient to reach a settlement states and international organizations need to rethink current perceptions of the private military sector as an unpleasant aberration.
David Shearer in his introduction to
Private Armies and Military Intervention
By definition, mercenaries have always been a dying breed.
British journalist Ian Bruce in Comment,
London, February 19, 2002
T his book would never have appeared in print had it not been for Dan Korn, Senior Vice President of Discovery Channel (Europe) roping me in at extremely short notice to produce and direct several episodes of a new TV series, appropriately titled Mercenaries. I was already in South Africa at the time and things seemed to have gone a little haywire with some of the earlier episodes when I got the call. What to do but accept with gratitude I have a career of film-making behind me (100+ TV documentaries) and what a pleasure it was to saddle-up again.
That done, I had to persuade David Farnsworth, who, with his lovely wife Sarah, runs Casemate Publishers in the United States and Britain, that there was a place on the international market for a new book on the subject. And since there is nobody else alive who has spent so much time with these Guns for hire over several decades, he acceded to my request.
Steve Smith, Casemates chief copy taster was quickly brought into the mix and though time has been short, they gave the production to Durbans Bruce Gonneau, another old pal of mine who handles many of my print titles. From start to finish, the entire project took a little more than two months. Here I also had the help of editor and proof-reader Jerry Buirski, one of the best talents in the business. Clinically deaf, Jerry has read more books than any other person I have ever met.
To finally achieve this objective, I was obliged to call on Nicol Stassen, owner of Protea Books in South Africa for permission to use a couple of pieces that had appeared in some of my books that hed originally published.
There is a bottom line, and that is the incredible cooperation I got from so many of my old merc oppos, some with whom I have seen combat. These include Roelf van Heerden, Manuel Ferreira, Cobus Claassens, Dave McGrady, Neall Ellis, Arthur Walker, Monster Wilkins, Hennie Blaauw, Fiona Capstick, Dave Atkinson, Peter Duffy and quite a few others.
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