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For years UN peacekeepers have been deployed to war-torn regions of the world, from Rwanda to Serbia, Congo to East Timor.  Now it's America's turn. A crippling terrorist attack against the United States has resulted in its cities emptied, its countryside set afire, and the government shaken to its knees.  In the aftermath of this attack, civil war broke out, until the UN arrived to establish an uneasy peace. Samuel Simpson is a young, idealistic journalist from Canada who, seeking adventure, volunteers to become a record-keeper for a UN war-crimes investigation team at work in upper New York State. While Samuel and his team travel through the New York countryside, searching for evidence of war atrocities, he soon realises that death is quick to strike from any farmhouse, road corner or rest area.  Even more chillingly, he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in the group, trying not only to conceal evidence of this war crime but working to betray and kill them all... Soft cover, very good condition.  388 pages.

AFRICA@WAR SERIES: VOLUME 6 CONGO UNRAVELLED: Military Operations from Independence to the Mercenary Revolt, 196068 Clearly and comprehensively explains the intrigues of the Congo wars Colonel Mike Hoare Post-independence events in the Republic of the Congo are a veritable Gordian knot. The ambitions of Congolese political leaders, Cold War rivalry, Pan-Africanism, Belgiums continued economic interests in the countrys mineral wealth, and the strategic perceptions of other southern African states all conspired to wrack Africas second largest country with uprisings, rebellions and military interventions for almost a decade. Congo Unravelled solves the intractable complexity of this violent period by dispassionately outlining the sequence of political and military events that took place in the troubled country. The reader is systematically taken through the first military attempts to stabilize the country after independence and the two distinguishing military campaigns of the decade - the United Nations military operations (Opration des Nations Unies au Congo, or ONUC) to end the secession of the Katanga Province, and the Dragon Operations led by Belgian paratroopers, supported by the US Air Force, launched to end the insurgency in the east of the country - are chronicled in detail. Finally, the mercenary revolt - an event that tainted the reputation of the modern mercenary in Africa - is described. Lesser known military events - Irish UN forces cut off from the outside world by Katangese gendarmes and mercenaries, and a combined military operation in which Belgian paratroopers were dropped from US Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft and supported by a mercenary ground force to achieve humanitarian ends - go far toward resolving the enigma surrounding post-independence Congo. Paperback, 72 pages. Illustrated throughout, including 8-page colour section.

* ORIGINAL*  KOREAN WAR:  U.S.  SOLDIER'S PERSONAL EFFECTS (179th INFANTRY REGIMENT).   THIS LOT CONSISTS OF THE PERSONAL EFFECTS OF A MR.  CLAYTON E. WALLER,  OF OKLAHOMA  IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.   MR. WALLER WAS A MEMBER OF THE 179th INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE U.S. NATIONAL GUARD - HAVING SEEN EXTENSIVE ACTION DURING THE KOREAN WAR (1950 - 1953).  THE 179th , OR OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE   "TOMAHAWKS " WERE INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST NORTH KOREAN & CHINESE COMMUNIST FORCES.   THE 179th INFANTRY REGIMENT  (In Omnia Paratus) ENGAGED IN THE FOLLOWING CAMPAIGNS DURING THE KOREAN WAR:   SECOND KOREAN WINTER KOREA, SUMMER - FALL 1952 THIRD KOREAN WINTER KOREA, SUMMER 1953.   MR.  CLAYTON E. WALLER WAS A RECIPIENT OF THE FOLLOWING AWARDS: KOREAN SERVICE MEDAL w/   STAR DEVICE FOR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN:   THE FIRST U.N.  COUNTER OFFENSIVE (25 JAN. - 21 APR. 1951) THE KOREAN DEFENCE,  SUMMER-FALL (1 MAY - 30 NOV. 1952) KOREA, SUMMER (1 MAY - 27 JUL. 1953)   THE UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) MEDAL.     THE LOT CONTAINS:   A PAIR OF MILITARY ID "DOG TAGS" PROVIDING THE FOLLOWING: NAME, NATIONAL GUARD FORCE NUMBER, T50 (YEAR OF TETANUS SHOT), BLOOD GROUP AS   'B'  & NO RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE.   KSM RIBBON BAR WITH CAMPAIGN STAR DEVICE. 2 x UN KOREA MEDAL RIBBON BARS. 2 x 179th INFANTRY EPAULETTE BADGES. 6 x U.S. ARMY  COLLAR BADGES.   A RARE & MUCH SOUGHT AFTER COLLECTION OF GENUINE PERSONAL EFFECTS BELONGING TO A MEMBER OF THE U.S. ARMED FORCES WHO ACTIVELY ENGAGED THE COMMUNIST FORCES DURING THE CONFLICT ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA.  AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DISCERNING COLLECTOR TO OBTAIN A CRUCIAL PIECE OF MILITARY HISTORY THAT HAS SHAPED PAST AND CURRENT WORLD EVENTS.     FOREIGN BIDDERS TO PAY USING BOB BUCKS - QUOTED SHIPPING  NO COLLECTIONS PAYMENT IN 7 DAYS OR SNC SEE SHIPPING OPTIONS.