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Have Gun Will Travel

In the late 1980s Rob Krott quit the US army to find adventure. Within a few years the Harvard graduate was fighting alongside a ragged collection of international misfits in Croatia as the country struggled for independence from post-Communist Yugoslavia. Krott discovered fast that mercenaries don't make much money but he found himself hooked on the adrenaline rush that comes from toting an AK-47 around a warzone ...

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African Memories

While researching my book on the Katanga secession I recently came across John Trevelyn's writings about his time in Africa during the sixties. Trevelyn was a market manager in East Africa during the post-colonial period, the years just after Britain had handed back control of its colonies and the new native-led nations were trying to find their feet. He worked in Kenya, Malawi (formerly Nyasaland), and also in ...

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A Kidnapping in Poland

Winter in Warsaw. January 1957. A schoolboy on his way home is lured into a taxi. A ransom is demanded. An unusual crime in Communist Poland, made stranger because the boy's father is Bolesław Piasecki, an important man in the establishment. Is it about the money? Or is it something darker, connected to Piasecki's pre-war past when he marched to a different drummer? CHRISTOPHER OTHEN investigates Poland's most notorious unsolved crime.

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Mercenaries, Guns, and Witch Doctors

I am working on a book about the Congo wars of the 1960s that will cover the Katanga secession in 1960, the Simba rebellion of '64, and Jean Schramme's mercenary revolt in '67. Soldiers of fortune, witch doctors, guns, and Belgian colonialism. Can you help? I am interested in hearing from anyone with first hand experience, previously unseen photographs, or in depth knowledge of the Congo or Katanga at that time. E-mail me at brightreview@aol.com or look me up on Skype. My profile mentions the Congo. Discretion is guaranteed - CHRISTOPHER OTHEN.

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