"Operations `Leopard' and `Red Bean' - Kolwezi 1978" : French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire (9781912390595)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 80 pages
• Dimensions 210 x 297 x 7.62mm | 294.84g
• Publication date 04 Jan 2019
• Publisher Helion & Company
• Publication City/Country Solihull, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 15 colour profiles, 3 colour photos, 2 colour maps, 3 colour ills, 105 b/w photos, 4 b/w maps, 8 tables
• ISBN10 1912390590
• ISBN13 9781912390595
• Bestsellers rank 46,513

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