C
ONTENTS
Prologue: The Dubious Life of a War Correspondent
1
Getting to a Lebanon at War
2
Death of a Young Man
3
Levantine Woes
4
Lagos and an Army Mutiny
5
Biafra: The Build-Up
6
Survival in a West African Conflict
7
A Dirty Distant War: El Salvador
8
Patrol in No Man’s Land
9
A Central American Conflagration
10
Somalia: Wars of No Consequence
11
Air Operations in the Horn of Africa
12
Somali Aftermath
13
Search and Destroy in the Eastern Mediterranean
14
Israel’s Border Wars
15
Marj’Ayoun and the South Lebanese Army
16
Uganda: Africa’s Killing Fields
17
Bounty Hunt in Rhodesia
18
On the Ground in Rhodesia’s Bush War
19
Zaire: Road to an African War
20
Into the Congo’s Cauldron
21
Jailed for Espionage in Lubumbashi
22
Isolated in a Congolese Prison
23
‘Kill all Infidels –
Allahu Aqbar
!’
24
Tete Convoy in Mozambique
25
Serengeti Must Not Die
26
The Balkan Beast: Landmines in Croatia
27
Balkan War Joint-STARS Offensive
28
Helicopter Drug Raids in Zululand
Postscript
Endnotes
Acknowledgements