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Author |
: Rose Doyle |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1848404883 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781848404885 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heroes of Jadotville by : Rose Doyle
"It is a pity that we, who never believed in the use of force, must suffer for the blunders of little dictators and stupid military leaders."--Comdt Patrick Quinlan, Jadotville, Sept. 1961 ***This new edition from the soldiers' perspectives coincides with the forthcoming Netflix film starring Jamie Dornan. In 1961, during the United Nations intervention in the Katangan conflict in the Congo, central Africa, a company of Irish peacekeeping troops, led by Comdt Patrick Quinlan, was forced to surrender to soldiers loyal to Katanga's prime minister, Moise Tshombe. Originally dispatched to protect Belgian colonists in Jadotville, they were isolated, without water, supplies, or support when they were attacked and forced to defend themselves in a brutal five-day battle. Shamefully neglected by their superiors, they were portrayed as cowards upon their return home. Rose Doyle draws on material provided by Leo Quinlan, son of Comdt Quinlan, as well as interviews, reports, journals and letters to bring answers to an episode that has been under-represented. She blows the lid off the real story of what happened, exposing how Irish peacekeeping soldiers became pawns in an international ploy for control of Katanga and its vast mineral wealth. *** "by far the fullest account of . . . what became known in the Irish Army as the Jadotville Affair" --The Irish Times Subject: Military History, History, Irish Studies]
Author |
: Declan Power |
Publisher |
: Blackstone Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2016-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504758888 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504758889 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Siege at Jadotville by : Declan Power
The Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In September 1961, another chapter should have been written into the annals, but it is a tale that lay shrouded in dust for years. The men of A Company, Thirty-Fifth Irish Infantry Battalion, arrived in the Congo as a United Nations contingent to help keep the peace. For many it would be their first trip outside their native shores. Some of the troops were teenage boys, their army-issue hobnailed boots still unbroken. They had never heard a shot fired in anger. Others were experienced professional soldiers but were still not prepared for the action that was to take place. Led by Commandant Pat Quinlan, A Company found themselves tasked with protecting the European population at Jadotville, a small mining town in the southern Congolese province of Katanga. It fell to A Company to protect those who would later turn against them. On September 13th, 1961, the bright morning air of Jadotville was shattered by the sound of automatic gunfire. The men of A Company found their morning mass parade interrupted, and within minutes they went from holding rosaries to rifles as they entered the world of combat. This was to be no Srebrenica; though cut off and surrounded, the men of Jadotville held their ground and fought. This is their story.
Author |
: Rose Doyle |
Publisher |
: New Island Books |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015064757969 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heroes of Jadotville by : Rose Doyle
In 1961, a company of Irish UN troops was forced to surrender to troops loyal to the Katangese Prime Minister Moise Tshombe. The contingent of Irish UN troops sent to protect the Belgian colonists and local population in Jadotville were attacked by those they were sent to protect. This book is their story.
Author |
: Michael Whelan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0954766067 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780954766061 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Battle of Jadotville by : Michael Whelan
Author |
: John Dorney |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1848407807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781848407800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peace After the Final Battle by : John Dorney
An engaging history of the Irish revolutionary period, now in paperback for the first time.
Author |
: Steven Maxwell |
Publisher |
: Maverick House |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781908518675 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1908518677 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dark Confides by : Steven Maxwell
Sean Alcott is pulled from the gutter when an undercover operation goes wrong. His next assignment involves infiltrating a crime family run by fearsome matriarch Aileen Molloy. He immerses himself in his new life and eventually falls for Aileen’s daughter Wren but everything changes when the body of a biker cop is found dumped outside a police station with a list of undercover officers nailed to its forehead. Alcott’s name is on the list. Yet for Alcott, who has found purpose behind the mask, there is something far worse awaiting him than his possible death, something involving his lover’s own masks and secrets.
Author |
: V. Y. Mudimbe |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2016-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474281379 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474281370 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tales of Faith by : V. Y. Mudimbe
This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre, it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage.
Author |
: Flor MacCarthy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1848408749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781848408746 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Presidents' Letters by : Flor MacCarthy
A gorgeously produced homage to the art of the letter, comprising letters to and from the Presidents of Ireland.
Author |
: Rose Doyle |
Publisher |
: Gemma |
Total Pages |
: 91 |
Release |
: 2009-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781934848371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1934848379 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Story of Joe Brown by : Rose Doyle
A lodger's dark past comes back to haunt him. Nothing remarkable about Joe Brown. He is of average height and wears average clothes. His average looks are hidden behind a beard. But Joe Brown has a past that he wants to forget. He might have managed it, too. He might have moved on to a new life, if he hadn't answered an ad for a room to rent. But the beautiful Julia Ryan became his landlord, and in no time Joe Brown's past, and his secret, catch up with him. This time there will be no forgetting.
Author |
: Christopher Othen |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2015-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780750965804 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0750965800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Katanga 1960-63 by : Christopher Othen
In King Leopold II's infamous Congo 'Free' State at the turn of the century, severed hands became a form of currency. But some in the Belgian government had no sense of historical shame, as they connived for an independent Katanga state in 1960 to protect Belgian mining interests. What happened next was extraordinary. It was an extremely uneven battle. The UN fielded soldiers from twenty nations, America paid the bills, and the Soviets intrigued behind the scenes. Yet to everyone's surprise the new nation's rag-tag army of local gendarmes, jungle tribesmen and, controversially, European mercenaries, refused to give in. For two and a half years Katanga, the scrawniest underdog ever to fight a war, held off the world with guerrilla warfare, two-faced diplomacy and some shady financial backing. It even looked as if the Katangese might win. Katanga 1960–63 tells, for the first time, the full story of the Congolese province that declared independence and found itself at war with the world.