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Unscathed Escape from Sierra Leone by Phil Ashby

Unscathed Escape from Sierra Leone by Phil Ashby

Africa, Biography & Autobiography, History, Intergovernmental Organizations, Military, Nonfiction, Pan, Phil Ashby, Biography, Non-fiction A truly amazing story of death-defying bravery and escapeMajor Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre, and various adventurous expeditions. That luck, however, appeared to have run out in May 2000, when he was working for the UN, disarming brutalised rebels in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. When the rebels turned on the UN's representatives, butchering, skinning alive and dismembering several peacekeepers and taking over 500 hostages, it seemed that all was lost and that Ashby and the other two Brits and a Kiwi would perish violently and gruesomely. Instead Ashby took the decision to die quickly rather than slowly by attempting to escape through the rebel lines. They were vastly outnumbered. They were unarmed. Somehow he led his three colleagues on a daring, dramatic and heart-stopping escape through hostile jungle. He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry medal for his actions.
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Africa, Biography & Autobiography, History, Intergovernmental Organizations, Military, Nonfiction, Pan, Phil Ashby , Biography, Non-fiction

Condition

Well Read
Pages

339
Language

EN
Publication Date

2003


ISBN

9780330491471
Binding

Paperback
Publisher

Pan