July 1960: The newly independent Congo is hit by the secession of its mineral rich-province Katanga, led by Moïse Tshombe and backed by Belgium and Britain.
June 1961: Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien arrives in Katanga as Special Representative of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, his task (under a UN resolution) to arrest and repatriate the mercenaries and foreign interests propping up Tshombe. The consequences of this mission will prove fateful for all parties.
This is the story of how a brilliant Irish diplomat found himself in Africa amid one of history's maelstroms. O'Brien reconstructs the complex, tragic, sometimes comic events of a drama in which he found himself controversially at centre stage. The result is history from the inside: a valuable study of 'the game of nations', and of the UN's unique functioning and malfunctioning.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Frontispiece
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN: AN APPRECIATION
- INTRODUCTION: STAFF REGULATION 1.5
- 1: A DELEGATE AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
- 2: NEUTRAL MEN?
- 3: THE JACARANDAS OF ELISABETHVILLE
- 4: THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF KATANGA
- 5: WAITING FOR TSHOMBE
- 6: A TURN FOR THE BETTER
- 7: MR SPAAK AND THE OCCULT COUNSELLORS
- 8: THE PROVINCE OF LUALABA
- 9: MISSIONARIES AND MERCENARIES
- 10: DON BENITO’S MASTERS
- 11: PHENOMENA OF AFRICAN NATIONALISM
- 12: THE ROAD TO RUMPUNCH
- 13: RUMPUNCH
- 14: RUMPUNCH TO MORTHOR
- 15: THE FIRE IN THE GARAGE
- 16: A FLAG FOR ALBERTVILLE
- 17: WHO IS MISS MACANDREW?
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
- APPENDIX III
- BOOKS CONSULTED
- INDEX
- Plates
- Copyright
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