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Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland's Lost Soldier - Softcover

Riegel, Ralph; O'Mahony, John

 
9781856356947: Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland's Lost Soldier
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1856356949 ISBN 13: 9781856356947
Verlag: Mercier Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The interior of the old Ford armoured car stank of sweat, blood and acrid smoke. Pat's eyes desperately struggled to focus in the gloom of the biting cordite fog ...On 15 September 1961, Trooper Patrick Mullins was posted missing after the bloody ambush of an Irish UN convoy in a suburb of Elisabethville in the Katanga province of the Congo. The circumstances of that fateful day have remained shrouded in confusion and contradiction for five decades - until now. Missing in Action reveals for the first time how an ill-equipped and heavily out-gunned Irish soldier fought with astonishing courage against heavily armed and ruthless Katangan gendarmes. Through interviews with the survivors and access to military intelligence sources, the truth about Trooper Mullins' heroic last stand and ultimate fate can now be told.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ralph Riegel works in the Southern Correspondent with Independent Newspapers, covering the region for The Irish Independent, The Southern Independent and The Evening Herald. He has reported on stories from the US to Australia and from Africa to the Far East. A graduate of DIT-Rathmines, he is a regular contributor to TV and radio including RTE, the BBC, Channel 4, TV3, NewsTalk and C103FM. His work has also appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The (London) Independent and The Belfast Telegraph. He is the author of five books, four of which were best-sellers. Two are currently the focus of upcoming TV programmes. The fifth, Three Kings, was long-listed for the 2008 William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award. He lives in Fermoy, Co Cork with his wife, Mary, and their three children. His interests include history, travel, Gaelic games, supporting Manchester United and religiously attending Bruce Springsteen concerts.

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Verlag
Mercier Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1856356949
ISBN 13 
9781856356947
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
274
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