EXECUTIVE OUTCOME Against All Odds by Eeben Barlow

BARLOW recruited ex-members of South Africa's elite military units for the job.  EO was contracted for a month, but this ended up being extended and EO spearheading an Angolan Army assault on Soyo and its capture from UNITA.  This highly sucessfull operation led to a contract to retrain the Angolan Army.  Both UNITA and MPLA had taken part in the UN supervised elections in 1992, but UNITA had rejected the results after losing and it had retuned to civil war.

During a hard fought campain, retrained Angolan Army units led by EO captured Cafunfu - the diamond producing area that funded UNITA'S war effort.  Eventually, international pressure spearheaded by the UN and the "blood diamond" lobby, forced EO's withdrawal from Angola which quickly sank back into chaos.  The UN's efforts to restore the situation achieved by EO for US$35 million, cost the world body many billions of dollars......................................

• several colour photographs.
• 550 pages, good condition.