Siege of Jadotville (Film)

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A recent Netflix production, that I finished watching last evening.



The film is based on Declan Power's non-fiction book, The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle (2005), and covers the story of the Siege of Jadotville, a conflict involving Irish Army UN Peacekeepers and Katangese forces during the Congo Crisis in September 1961.

Overall it's well done, a fair balance between a measure of historical storytelling and theatrical action sequences.

Certain liberties have been taken with the action sequences, however it was well done, and displays a fine variety of arms of the period. And re-enforces my professional distrust of UN based peacekeeping operations, glad I never deployed on a bullet counting tour.

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