CONTENTS

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