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Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland's Lost Soldier
John O'Mahony Ralph Riegal
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Description for Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland's Lost Soldier
Paperback. Biography...Patrick Mullins. 256pp
The interior of the old Ford armoured car stank of sweat, blood and acrid smoke. Pat's eyes desperately struggled to focus in the gloom of the biting cordite fog …On 15 September 1961, Trooper Patrick Mullins was posted missing after the bloody ambush of an Irish UN convoy in a suburb of Elisabethville in the Katanga province of the Congo. The circumstances of that fateful day have remained shrouded in confusion and contradiction for five decades – until now. Missing in Action reveals for the first time how an ill-equipped and heavily out-gunned Irish soldier fought with astonishing courage against ... Read more
The interior of the old Ford armoured car stank of sweat, blood and acrid smoke. Pat's eyes desperately struggled to focus in the gloom of the biting cordite fog …On 15 September 1961, Trooper Patrick Mullins was posted missing after the bloody ambush of an Irish UN convoy in a suburb of Elisabethville in the Katanga province of the Congo. The circumstances of that fateful day have remained shrouded in confusion and contradiction for five decades – until now. Missing in Action reveals for the first time how an ill-equipped and heavily out-gunned Irish soldier fought with astonishing courage against ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The Mercier Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781856356947
SKU
9781856356947
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About John O'Mahony Ralph Riegal
Ralph Riegel is the author of Hidden Soldier and Afraid of the Dark: The Tragic Story of Robert Houlihan. He is the southern correspondent of the Irish Independent and the Evening Herald. John O'Mahony is from Waterford and enlisted in the army in 1960 and served in the Congo with Patrick Mullins in the Armoured Car Group of the 35th ... Read more
Reviews for Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland's Lost Soldier
Picked this book up in a bookshop in Portrush. Very informative about Irish troops in the Congo in the 60s. Plus a very interesting story and search for Patrick Mullins.
Glen Gilpin
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Glen Gilpin
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