Military and War - Inside Story: Dogs of War

This documentary may be of interest to those wanting to find out more about the involvement of foreign fighters in the Yugoslav Civil War, or about the death of journalist Paul Jenks, or about the activities of far-right Bolivian-Hungarian adventurer Eduardo Rozsa-Flores. The film features interviews with a number of foreign volunteers who fight alongside the Croats in the First International Company, a unit based in the eastern Slavonian town of Osijek. The unit is led by Eduardo, a jovial journalist-turned-soldier (albeit one with a shadow-darkened past involving pre-Soviet collapse espionage, far right nationalism and blurred identities), who appears to have charmed his way into command of the foreigners despite throwing grenades like the proverbial girl and seemingly having little military aptitude. Amongst the Britons we meet, the main character is Kit, a career soldier from the north-east who finds it hard to adjust to civvie life, especially after the death of his wife in Croatia he finds meaning through instruction putting a bunch of novices through a rudimentary boot camp, and then leading them on intelligence-gathering and sabotage missions behind enemy lines.