Misspent Moments in Combat - a War Correspondent's View from the Frontlines
Al J. Venter
While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J. Venter-from some strange compulsion unexplainable even by him-has felt the need to see them all in person, preferably at the center of the action. Born in South Africa, Venter has found no shortage of horrific battles on his own continent, from Rhodesia to Biafra, and Angola to Somalia. He has ridden with the legendary merc group Executive Outcomes, flown with the Selous Scouts on their bounty hunts,' and traipsed the jungles with both guerrillas and national troops under whichever strongman in the country then held power. During Sierra Leone's civil war he flew in the government's lone Mi-24 Hind gunship as it blasted apart rebel villages and convoys, his complaint being that the Soviet-made craft leaked when it rained. In the Mideast he went into southern Lebanon with the invading Israeli army, and at one point was held prisoner by Hezbollah.
480 pages, 160 x 235mm, hardcover, Casemate, 2010
Product Code: 9781935149255
