Beneath The Shroud

by James Joseph Jacks

Life inside two secret companies funded by the United States to do their bidding in hot war zones during the Cold War. This shows a close-up view of the suffering they played a part in while supporting what history has clearly shown to be the misguided foreign policies of the United States in the Congo and Cambodia. Also shows how a Texas country boy moves from small town life to flying missions in the Congo and Cambodia.

528 pages, Hardcover

Published July 5, 2019

Reviews

[James Jacks]

Beneath The Shroud is life inside two companies whose sole purpose was to support the CIA their secret wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) and in Cambodia. The reader sees first-hand the carnage brought by the United States, China, and Russia in their worldwide chess game. They see it through the worldview of a pilot who flew the air missions. The book becomes quite heavy at times. The object of this superpower contest was to beat down the opponent's efforts to exert influence in various parts of the world. On one side was communism and socialism . . . on the other, the United States and a hand full of allies. The winners were uncertain . . . the losers were the peoples of the battleground countries.

Few books and articles have adequately portrayed the depths of the sufferings these so called third world populations have endured. Beneath the Shroud shows all too clearly the death, suffering, and permanent scaring these people went through at the hands of America's architects of this tragedy . . . . President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Now decades later, it is clear . . . there were no winners . . . only losers.

For students of history and politics, this is a must read. The same for those who follow foreign policy stratifies.

[nadiansfw · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5