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In 1964 President Kennedy withdrew American aid from South Vietnam in favor of a path to neutrality. By 1965 Saigon fell to the communists.
Now the same pattern is playing out again in 1966, shifting the focus of the Cold War from Southeast Asia to Congo, the heart of Africa.
Six years after Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba'''s murder, the revolutionary Free Republic of the Congo holds the eastern half of the fledgling nation. It is Soviet-armed, Cuban-trained, and disciplined in ways no one in the West predicted. Its armies are pushing south toward the copper and cobalt of Katanga province, threatening to claim Congo's mineral riches for the communist bloc, and a fresh batch of volunteers have just landed in Stanleyville to help them finish the job.
In West Congo's capital of Léopoldville, panic reigns. The national army is breaking before waves of guerrilla fighters known as Simbas—Lions. While the Congolese government attempts to stem the tide with European mercenaries and CIA-backed aircraft, in Washington DC, President Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. is forced to weigh the costs of escalation, fighting a war no one wants to fight.
Congo was born in Tears, fire, and blood and the struggle is only just beginning.
Genre: Thriller
Now the same pattern is playing out again in 1966, shifting the focus of the Cold War from Southeast Asia to Congo, the heart of Africa.
Six years after Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba'''s murder, the revolutionary Free Republic of the Congo holds the eastern half of the fledgling nation. It is Soviet-armed, Cuban-trained, and disciplined in ways no one in the West predicted. Its armies are pushing south toward the copper and cobalt of Katanga province, threatening to claim Congo's mineral riches for the communist bloc, and a fresh batch of volunteers have just landed in Stanleyville to help them finish the job.
In West Congo's capital of Léopoldville, panic reigns. The national army is breaking before waves of guerrilla fighters known as Simbas—Lions. While the Congolese government attempts to stem the tide with European mercenaries and CIA-backed aircraft, in Washington DC, President Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. is forced to weigh the costs of escalation, fighting a war no one wants to fight.
Congo was born in Tears, fire, and blood and the struggle is only just beginning.
Genre: Thriller
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