Reply With Quotei only saw outtakes,would love to see the documentary.
Dogs of War
I am looking for a copy of the BBC documentary of the same name from the early 90's.
It was about a rag tag group of foreign volunteers fighting for the Croatian side in Eastern Slavonia.
If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
Cheers
i only saw outtakes,would love to see the documentary.
x2Originally Posted by Josip
it would be great to see it.
Read the book a few years back. Insightfull and is recomended!
talking bout the book War Dogs from Keith Cory Jones ?
the book is really bad...a lot of lies and the wrong facts...
i would not recommend the book.
You might try asking on www.uknova.com if they still have any sign ups avaliable. They have members with a lot of obscure programmes archived.
The one where the young guy told his mum he was away working at Euro Disney
That's the one.
I was searching for something else and came across this old thread.
Just to say that I briefly knew the main person in this book (Chris "Kit" Freeman) shortly before he went to Bosnia and he was a very untrustworthy conman who went to prison eventually for deception. Therefore I think that the author has suffered from having a source in Freeman who is extremely unreliable and a professional conman!
Hey guys;
A little Google-Fu turned up this link for me; http://davecinzano.wordpress.com/199...s-of-war-1992/
Its got a link for the full 50-minute show. I just checked my copy and the transfer is not perfect, but watchable.
For those who haven't seen my review on Amazon, here 'tis...
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War Dogs, 13 Aug 2003
By
James Hooper
This review is from: War Dogs (Paperback)
Okay, I'll admit that six months of getting shelled a lot, shot at a lot and scared stiff a lot in Bosnia taught this journalist a bit about the place. So when asked to review a book about the war, I thought, Great! By page 20, however, I was wondering why it wasn't called War Comics. But you be the judge - and please interrupt if you have any questions.
The story begins with 13 tough mercs landing in Albania for a mission to Bosnia. "Uh, excuse me, but isn't there sort of like another country between Albania and Bosnia?" Shut up and sit down; I was only kidding about the questions. Led by Foreign Legion deserter Kit Freeman, the mission – to recce the airfield at Mostar – is so secret they have to make a minor 250-mile detour in an inflatable boat, Kit overlooking the fact that half way to Split they pass within 20 miles of Mostar airfield or, even better, that they could have flown directly to Split in the first place. (Maybe they forgot their map, which could explain why they landed in Albania. 'Gracious me! We've landed in the wrong place!') From Split they’re choppered to "The Valley of Imotski," where, Kit warns, Serb commandos roam at will. "But there were never Serb forces anywhere near Imotski," you say. Button it – "But ..." – and sit down. Next, they ‘tab’ 20 miles through heavy woodland to Mostar airfield. "Excuse me, but there's no 'heavy woodland' anywhere near Mostar!" I'm not telling you again to shut your face while I'm telling Kit's true-life story here.
Then ... uh-oh ... they spot a trip wire. If Kit disarms it the Serbs will suspect he and his boys are about, so he marks it "with a small piece of white tape instead". "Lemme get this straight. Disarming it is going to give them away, but white tape isn't?" No problem. He collects the white tape on the way out. "Interesting. I learned that you never come out the same way you went in because the bad guys might be waiting, and here's someone telling them with white tape that he ain't come back yet." Listen, who're you going to believe, people who have actually done the biz, or Kit Freeman? We're talking a serious professional here.
Where was I? Right. After Kit camouflages himself with white tape, what do you suppose they find sitting on the runway? Why, three MiG-21s! "I know I'm being a pain, but overlooking the fact that MiGs never operated out of Mostar during the war, what the hell are they doing in the open with Croat artillery just two miles away in Mostar?" I dunno. Maybe the Croats didn't hear those three jets land. Anything's possible. Like landing in Albania when your target's in Croatia, for example.
Anyway, they slither up with 30kg of PE and home-made timers in Tupperware containers. Now, anyone else would have thought that wherever there's PE then timers are ten a tuppence. But not clever ol' war dog Kit Freeman, who, just to be on the safe side, had a chum whip up a few in his garden shed before leaving the UK. (I told you he's a pro, but you didn't believe me, did you?) By the time the MiGs are history we're only on page 20. And for the poor sod marooned on a desert isle with absolutely nothing else to read, there are, God help him, 241 pages still to go. Kit Freeman claims it's all true. The author sulkily admitted to me that it's "not supposed or intended to be an accurate journalistic account". So is it Freeman's fantasy or the author's fiction? Who cares? Either way it's pathetic. My advice? If you're interested in reading about real mercenaries, then buy a copy of No Mean Soldier by Peter McAleese instead.
Last edited by Jim Hooper; 08-02-2012 at 12:13 PM. Reason: mistake
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