"The title of Frederick Forsyth's novel, ""The Dogs of War"" is taken from a line in which Shakespeare play?"
The Dogs of War (film) The Dogs of War (film) The Dogs of War is a 1980 war film based upon the 1974 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. Largely filmed in Belize, it was directed by John Irvin and starred Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger. In it a small mercenary unit of soldiers is privately hired to depose the president of a fictional African country so that a British tycoon can gain access to a platinum deposit. The title is based on a phrase from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar: "Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war." Having escaped from
The Dogs of War (novel) dealers were the most frightening people he had ever met; the mercenaries Mike Hoare, Bob Denard, "Black Jack" Schramme and Rolf Steiner are all name-checked in the novel. In Ken Connor's book "How to Stage a Military Coup", the author praises "The Dogs of War" as a textbook for mercenaries; in much the same way that "The Day of the Jackal" is appreciated as a guide for assassins. The Dogs of War (novel) The Dogs of War (1974) is a war novel by Frederick Forsyth featuring a small group of European mercenary soldiers hired by a British industrialist to depose