版1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
数量xvii, 392 p., [12] p. of plates : ; 24 cm.
一般注記Introduction -- Origins: Business of America is business -- Part 1: Mercenaries -- 1: Africa: they do things differently there -- 2: Congo 1960-1: the unquiet spirit of Patrice Lumumba -- 3: Congo 1964-7: the myth of the white giant -- 4: Angola 1974-2002: a war for slow readers -- Part 2: Plausibly Deniable -- 5: Yemen 1965-8: "do you fancy going into Yemen and burning the Migs?" -- 6: Oman 1970-95: how the Sandhurst brotherhood saved a nation -- 7: Afghanistan 1979-89: "the British will probably be most forthcoming" -- 8: Nicaragua and elsewhere 1984-2006: spreading democracy, America's first war on terror -- 9: Sierra Leone 1997-8: a less than ethical foreign policy -- 10: Croatia 1995: America's junkyard dogs -- Part 3: Licensed To Kill -- 11: Iraq 2003-present: a licence to kill, in some circumstances -- 12: Iraq 2005: the thirty-two-second ambush -- 13: Online dialogues: grunts, muppets and the civvy bodycount -- 14: Afghanistan 2001-future indefinite: in Talibs' fields the poppies blow -- 15: Licensed to save: the unarmed warriors -- Part 4: Regulation -- 16: Foreign Enlistment Act 1870-present: lying in state at Westminster -- 17: Legal remedies, 1976-present: the Utopian in pursuit of the uncontrollable -- 18: Great reappraisal, 2006: dogs of war or pussycats of peace? -- Part 5: Money -- 19: Mr Micawber's missing millions -- Epilogue: After RIO -- Appendix: Best of British -- Notes -- Picture credits -- Index.