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Description edit
War Dog deals with mercenary action in a score of wars: Angola, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, the Congo Republic, Ethiopia, Lebanon and others. One of a handful of correspondents that saw action with the South African 'guns for hire' group Executive Outcomes, Al Venter's revelations about... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mobutu: Add a description of this character.
- Arthur Walker
- Savimbi
- Makeni
- Hassan
- Andy Brown
- Bob Mackenzie
- Cockerill
- Alberts
- Garba
- Atkinson
- Van Heerden
- Neall Ellis
- Hennie Blaauw
- Mauritz Le Roux
- Barlow
- Ojukwu
- Hawkeye
- Kabila
- Sachse
- Drenkowski
- Mugabe
- Charles Taylor
- Mohammed
- Jane
- Luitingh
- Hinds
- Baramoto
- Symonds
- Tate
- Tshombe
- Gadhaffi
- Denard
- Bosch
- Forsyth
- Strasser
- Wilson
- Michael Grunberg
- Hoare
- Marafano
- Haddad
- Danny O'brien
Setting & Locations edit
- Sierra Leone
- Freetown
- Angola
- South Africans
- Congo River
- Luanda
- London
- Kinshasa
- Soyo
- West Africa
- Liberia
- Nigeria
- Zaire
- Britain
- Saurimo
- Zimbabwe
- Biafra
- Koidu
- Washington
- Europe
- Afghanistan
- Cafunfo
- Lungi
- Iraq
- Moscow
- Juba
- Uganda
- Sankoh
- Libya
- Lagos
- Guinea
- Rhodesia
- Lunsar
- Cabo Ledo
- Johannesburg
- America
- Gbadolite
- Pretoria
- Katanga
- France
- Rwanda
- Middle East
- Paris
- Balkans
- Mozambique
- Sudan
- Harare
Authors & Contributors edit
- Al J. Venter (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Frederick Forsyth (Foreword) - "For the mercenary is a simplistic fellow. Not for him the strutting parades of West Point, the medals on the steps of the White House or perhaps a place at Arlington. He simply says: 'Pay me my wage and I'll kill the bastards for you'. And if he dies, they will bury him quickly and quietly in the red soil of Africa and we will never know... "Frederick Forsyth, "Send in the Mercenaries," Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2000
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 355.354
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