- Taschenbuch: 240 Seiten
- Verlag: Mainstream Pub Co; Auflage: New edition (25. Mai 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1840183497
- ISBN-13: 978-1840183498
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 13 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 288.161 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Tim Spicer has always led an exciting and controversial life. Once one of Britain's leading battalion commanders and now head of Sandline International, one of the world's foremost private military companies, he has spent most of the last 25 years seeking action and adventure in the British Army as an officer in one of its crack regiments, the Scots Guards. Spicer served several tours in Northern Ireland, for which he was awarded an OBE. During the Falklands War he was Operations Officer with the Scots Guards. Before leaving the Army he served with the UN contingent in Bosnia. In this fast-moving account of his life, Tim Spicer describes all the events surrounding the catastrophe in Papua New Guinea, when he was captured at gunpoint and held in captivity - and came away with his life, his men ...and $36 million dollars. Here too is the full truth about the notorious "Arms for Africa" affair -the Sandline Affair of 1996, which tied Robin Cook, the Foreign Office and Customs and Excise in an almighty knot over whether Sandline had broken a UN embargo on supplying arms to the legitimate government-in-exile of Sierra Leone. Spicer's entertaining account of modern soldiering looks at the creation of private military companies - the modern legitimate version of the old mercenaries - and concludes with Tim Spicer's troubled forecast about the dangerous world that lies ahead in the new millennium. For a look at life as it is lived in some of the world's trouble spots, and a glimpse of the intrigue that lies behind the British political scene, this book is a must for every thinking person's bookshelf.
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Tim Spicer has always led an exciting and controversial life. Once one of Britain's leading battalion commanders and now head of Sandline International, one of the world's foremost private military companies, he has spent most of the last 25 years seeking action and adventure in the British Army as an officer in one of its crack regiments, the Scots Guards. Spicer served several tours in Northern Ireland, for which he was awarded an OBE. During the Falklands War he was Operations Officer with the Scots Guards. Before leaving the Army he served with the UN contingent in Bosnia. In this fast-moving account of his life, Tim Spicer describes all the events surrounding the catastrophe in Papua New Guinea, when he was captured at gunpoint and held in captivity - and came away with his life, his men ...and $36 million dollars. Here too is the full truth about the notorious "Arms for Africa" affair -the Sandline Affair of 1996, which tied Robin Cook, the Foreign Office and Customs and Excise in an almighty knot over whether Sandline had broken a UN embargo on supplying arms to the legitimate government-in-exile of Sierra Leone.Spicer's entertaining account of modern soldiering looks at the creation of private military companies - the modern legitimate version of the old mercenaries - and concludes with Tim Spicer's troubled forecast about the dangerous world that lies ahead in the new millennium. For a look at life as it is lived in some of the world's trouble spots, and a glimpse of the intrigue that lies behind the British political scene, this book is a must for every thinking person's bookshelf.
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Eine Autobiographie des Aegis CEO's Tim Spicer.
Spicer schreibt über sein Leben, seine Zeit im britischen Militär, über seine Firma Sandline und die damit verbundenen Affären bzgl. der Projekte in Sierra Leone und Papua Neuguinea. Stellt man seine eigenen Positionen in Rechnung, ist das Buch sehr lesenswert. Es beschreibt die Anfänge und die Realität des PMC Business in den 90er Jahren und gibt Einblicke in die Zukunft dieses neuen Geschäftszweiges. Spannend geschrieben, nie langweilig! Schade, daß dieses Buch nicht in deutscher Sprache erschienen ist. Sehr informativ! 5 Sterne!
Spicer schreibt über sein Leben, seine Zeit im britischen Militär, über seine Firma Sandline und die damit verbundenen Affären bzgl. der Projekte in Sierra Leone und Papua Neuguinea. Stellt man seine eigenen Positionen in Rechnung, ist das Buch sehr lesenswert. Es beschreibt die Anfänge und die Realität des PMC Business in den 90er Jahren und gibt Einblicke in die Zukunft dieses neuen Geschäftszweiges. Spannend geschrieben, nie langweilig! Schade, daß dieses Buch nicht in deutscher Sprache erschienen ist. Sehr informativ! 5 Sterne!
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Tim Spicer's autobiography is highly interesting to read. The book starts with a short description of historical mercenary warfare and Sandline International / PMCs. Then he writes about his military career in the British Army. There he already starts to point out what has been important to build a company like Sandline. The main focus is on the two trips to Northern Ireland, the Falklands / Battle for Tumbledown, and Bosnia. This takes up 86 pages of the book. Then, as I think, the interesting part starts when he describes how he created Sandline and their first contract with PNG, where he was kidnapped. I read a lot about PNG and Sandline, but I have never read a better report. After the chapter about PNG he jumps to Sierra Leone and thi is another well written report about the, so called, Sandline affair and the legal problems, including a chapter just about the trial in Great Britain. The book ends with a look into the future of PMCs.
I think the last chapter is written to positive, because he lists just positive reasons for the use of PMCs.
All in all I think this book is worth reading, if you are interesting in Sandline International or Tim Spicer's life, because it is an informative and complete account about both (not like many reports in the internet and newspaper-articles). The only thing I disliked was that he never mentioned a word about any other operation except for PNG and SL.
I think the last chapter is written to positive, because he lists just positive reasons for the use of PMCs.
All in all I think this book is worth reading, if you are interesting in Sandline International or Tim Spicer's life, because it is an informative and complete account about both (not like many reports in the internet and newspaper-articles). The only thing I disliked was that he never mentioned a word about any other operation except for PNG and SL.
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Tim Spicer's autobiography is highly interesting to read. The book starts with a short description of historical mercenary warfare and Sandline International / PMCs. Then he writes about his military career in the British Army. There he already starts to point out what has been important to build a company like Sandline. The main focus is on the two trips to Northern Ireland, the Falklands / Battle for Tumbledown, and Bosnia. This takes up 86 pages of the book. Then, I think, the interesting part of the book starts when he describes how he created Sandline and their first contract with PNG, where he was kidnapped. I read a lot about PNG and Sandline, but I have never read a better report. After PNG he jumps to Sierra Leone and it's another well written report about the, so called, Sandline affair and the legal problems, including a chapter just about the trial in Great Britain. The book ends with a look into the future of PMCs.
I think the last chapter is written to positive, because he lists just positive reasons for the use of PMCs.
All in all I think this book is worth reading, if you are interesting in Sandline International or Tim Spicer's life, because it is an informative and complete account about both (not like many reports in the internet and newspaper-articles). The only thing, I disliked, was that he never mentioned a word about any other operation except for PNG and SL.
I think the last chapter is written to positive, because he lists just positive reasons for the use of PMCs.
All in all I think this book is worth reading, if you are interesting in Sandline International or Tim Spicer's life, because it is an informative and complete account about both (not like many reports in the internet and newspaper-articles). The only thing, I disliked, was that he never mentioned a word about any other operation except for PNG and SL.
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