Mission For Hammarskjold

Author : Susan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190231408
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Killed Hammarskjöld? written by Susan Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been 50 years since the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold mysteriously died in a plane crash in Africa. Williams uncovers new evidence to demonstrate conclusively that the horrific conflict in the Congo was driven not so much by internal divisions as by the Cold War and the West's determination to control post-colonial Africa.

Author : Anna Mark-Jungkvist
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403974310
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventure of Peace written by Anna Mark-Jungkvist and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with both the past and the present. In twenty-five chapters researchers, diplomats, and UN-servants from all over the world discuss the life and deeds of Dag Hammarskjöld. Sir Brian Urquhart, Hans Blix, Ambassador Nancy E. Soderberg, and Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor, among others, ask themselves in what way the political legacy of Dag Hammarskjöld can help us find solutions to the international problems of today.

Author : Henning Melber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787380042
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa written by Henning Melber and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new investigation into Hammarskjöld's role in the decolonisation of Africa during the Cold War offers startling conclusions.

Author : Roger Lipsey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472118900
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hammarskjöld written by Roger Lipsey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from little explored archives and personal correspondence, chronicles the life of the second secretary general of the United Nations who was killed in 1961 while en route to ceasefire negotiations in the Congo.

Author : Ravi Somaiya
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1455536539
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread written by Ravi Somaiya and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE ALCS "GOLD DAGGER" AWARD FOR NON-FICTION CRIME WRITING Uncover the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in this true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. On September 17, 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld boarded a Douglas DC6 propeller plane on the sweltering tarmac of the airport in Leopoldville, the capital of the Congo. Hours later, he would be found dead in an African jungle with an ace of spades playing card placed on his body. Hammarskjöld had been the head of the United Nations for nine years. He was legendary for his dedication to peace on earth. But dark forces circled him: Powerful and connected groups from an array of nations and organizations—including the CIA, the KGB, underground militant groups, business tycoons, and others—were determined to see Hammarskjöld fail. A riveting work of investigative journalism based on never-before-seen evidence, recently revealed firsthand accounts, and groundbreaking new interviews, The Golden Thread reveals the truth behind one of the great murder mysteries of the Cold War.

Author : Rajeshwar Dayal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783793276
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission for Hammarskjold written by Rajeshwar Dayal and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dag Hammarskjold
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0307277429
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Markings written by Dag Hammarskjold and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century." — The New York Times A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by a universally known and admired peacemaker. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964. Markings is distinctive, as W.H. Auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of "the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via contemplativa." It reflects its author's efforts to live his creed, his belief that all men are equally the children of God and that faith and love require of him a life of selfless service to others. For Hammarskjöld, "the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." Markings is not only a fascinating glimpse of the mind of a great man, but also a moving spiritual classic that has left its mark on generations of readers.

Author : Susan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190257636
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Killed Hammarskjold? written by Susan Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. Just minutes after midnight, his aircraft plunged into thick forest in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), abruptly ending his mission to bring peace to the Congo. Across the world, many suspected sabotage, accusing the multi-nationals and the governments of Britain, Belgium, the USA and South Africa of involvement in the disaster. These suspicions have never gone away. British High Commissioner Lord Alport was waiting at the airport when the aircraft crashed nearby. He bizarrely insisted to the airport management that Hammarskjold had flown elsewhere - even though his aircraft was reported overhead. This postponed a search for so long that the wreckage of the plane was not found for fifteen hours. White mercenaries were at the airport that night too, including the South African pilot Jerry Puren, whose bombing of Congolese villages led, in his own words, to 'flaming huts ...destruction and death'. These soldiers of fortune were backed by Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Rhodesian Federation, who was ready to stop at nothing to maintain white rule and thought the United Nations was synonymous with the Nazis. The Rhodesian government conducted an official inquiry, which blamed pilot error. But as this book will show, it was a massive cover-up that suppressed and dismissed a mass of crucial evidence, especially that of African eye-witnesses. A subsequent UN inquiry was unable to rule out foul play - but had no access to the evidence to show how and why. Now, for the first time, this story can be told. Who Killed Hammarskjold follows the author on her intriguing and often frightening journey of research to Zambia, South Africa, the USA, Sweden, Norway, Britain, France and Belgium, where she unearthed a mass of new and hitherto secret documentary and photographic evidence. At the heart of this book is Hammarskjold himself - a courageous and complex idealist, who sought to shield the newly-independent nations of the world from the predatory instincts of the Great Powers. It reveals that the conflict in the Congo was driven not so much by internal divisions, as by the Cold War and by the West's determination to keep real power from the hands of the post-colonial governments of Africa. It shows, too, that the British settlers of Rhodesia would maintain white minority rule at all costs.

Author : Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission for Hammarskjold written by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787380653
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spies in the Congo written by Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America’s desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb. The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered anywhere on earth, vital to the success of the Manhattan Project. Given that Germany was also working on an atomic bomb, it was an urgent priority for the US to prevent uranium from the Congo being diverted to the enemy — a task entrusted to Washington’s elite secret intelligence agents. Sent undercover to colonial Africa to track the ore and to hunt Nazi collaborators, their assignment was made even tougher by the complex political reality and by tensions with Belgian and British officials. A gripping spy-thriller, Spies in the Congo is the true story of unsung heroism, of the handful of good men — and one woman — in Africa who were determined to deny Hitler his bomb.