Description

Published 2016: Second Edition / Softcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original pictorial stiff card covers. 378 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear might be expected. Scarce! (GT926)

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Rose Doyle’s revised and updated book recounts the Siege of Jadotville, a bloody battle fought in a predominantly Belgian mining town in the breakaway Congolese province of Katanga in September 1961

In 1961, during the United Nations intervention in the Katangan conflict in the Congo, central Africa, a company of Irish peacekeeping troops, led by Comdt Patrick Quinlan, was forced to surrender to soldiers loyal to Katanga s prime minister, Moise Tshombe. Originally dispatched to protect Belgian colonists in Jadotville, they were isolated, without water, supplies or support when they were attacked and forced to defend themselves in a brutal and bloody five-day battle. Shamefully neglected by their superiors, they were portrayed as cowards upon their return home. In Heroes of Jadotville: The Soldiers Story, Rose Doyle draws on material provided by Comdt Quinlan, as well as original first-hand accounts through interviews, reports, journals and letters to bring answers to an episode that has been largely under-representated. She blows the lid on the real story of what happened, exposing how Irish peacekeeping soldiers became pawns in an international ploy for control of Katanga and its vast mineral wealth.

Review
It is by far the fullest account of what became known in the Irish army as the Jadotville Affair... she is, after all, Pat Quinlan's niece and has had access to his journals, his letters home, his subsequent writings and, most importantly, his radio log during the fighting and afterwards. --Irish Independent

About the Author
Rose Doyle is a writer and journalist. Her novels, seventeen in all, include Friends Indeed and Shadows Will Fall both international bestsellers. Trade Names: Traditional Traders and Shopkeepers of Dublin, the book of her long-running series in The Irish Times, was published by New Island in 2004. [Google Books]