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Congo Mercenary
- Narrated by: Mike Hoare
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Congo Mercenary
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Publisher's Summary
Col. Mike Hoare tells how his force of mercenaries, 5 Commando, put down a Comunist-backed rebel uprising in the Congo. As they restored law and order, town by town, he and his men freed 1,800 nuns and priests. His men also learned what it means to be real soldiers.
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- L. Knight
- 31-01-2021
Excellent
Excellent account of 5 Commando's involvement in the Congo. Hoare is surprisingly honest regarding his shortcomings, and also quite funny at times
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- Fly-GT
- 26-02-2023
High Adventure in darkest Africa
I throughly enjoyed this book and Mad Mike isn't so mad after all. He narrates his own book matter-of-factly and runs through some harrowing and sad tales without much emotion. One can only imagine what he had been through. RIP good man.
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- Scott
- 16-09-2021
An absolute blast!
At first I found the narration somewhat hard to listen to, it's full of audible paper shuffling and the odd flub of a line. But soon I found myself completely endeared to the narrator , the venerable late mike hoar. It felt like listening to your grandfather tell war stories. I really loved it.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-01-2019
Superb
Excellent book, great to hear it read by the man himself. An interesting eye opener on some of the more recent events in African history.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-06-2019
Strange & Slightly Boring
The author is quite full of himself and his own achievements while apparently unconcerned about the killing of innocent people and looting civilian properties. There surely would be a strong case to prosecute him with war crimes.
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