Böcker av Stephen Rookes

This first volume of a three-part series on the First Indochina War centered on the period between 1946-1949. A time when tensions between east and west were on the rise, the Indochina War was a colonial conflict that laid the foundations for America's war in Vietnam.

The build-up and operational history of the Force Publique - a paramilitary force established by King Léopold II to secure the Congo Free State, in 1885 - including its deployments elsewhere in Africa, during the First and Second World War, in the Sudan, East Africa, and in Ethiopia.

The little know story of the CIA-recruited Cuban exiles' covert operation in the Congo during the 1960s. It relies on their personal testimonies, on government archives, on declassified documents.

Ripe for Rebellion is the first of two volumes examining the so-called 'Congo Crisis'.