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Against All Odds: Escape from Sierra Leone
In West Africa's War-Ravaged Sierra Leone No On e Was Getting Out Alive.
It Took the Courage of One Man to Change the Odds.
By 1990, Sierra Leone, once hailed as the 'Athens of West Africa', had degenerated into a savage battlefield, overtaken by rebel forces in a devastating civil war. Assigned to spearhead the mission as UN peacekeeper was Major Phil Ashby. But by 2000, the rebel occupation he had worked so diligently to disarm rose again to control an astounding two-thirds of the country. The enemy's get rid of the outside opposition first. A number of Ashby's colleagues were tortured and finally butchered, and more than 500 were taken as hostages. Among the hostages was Phil Ashby. Miles from civilization, with no rescue in sight, Ashby and three of his men knew that their fate was up to them alone. Lost deep inside the rebels' heartland, unarmed, and outnumbered 20-to-1, Ashby devised a plan to escape from the hostile jungles that would test fate and challenge all reason. They should have been doomed.
Against All Odds is the incredible true story of that escape-and of the heart-pounding courage of Major Phil Ashby who defeated the rebel forces of Sierra Leone and became a living testament to the power of the human spirit and the sheer determination to survive.
It Took the Courage of One Man to Change the Odds.
By 1990, Sierra Leone, once hailed as the 'Athens of West Africa', had degenerated into a savage battlefield, overtaken by rebel forces in a devastating civil war. Assigned to spearhead the mission as UN peacekeeper was Major Phil Ashby. But by 2000, the rebel occupation he had worked so diligently to disarm rose again to control an astounding two-thirds of the country. The enemy's get rid of the outside opposition first. A number of Ashby's colleagues were tortured and finally butchered, and more than 500 were taken as hostages. Among the hostages was Phil Ashby. Miles from civilization, with no rescue in sight, Ashby and three of his men knew that their fate was up to them alone. Lost deep inside the rebels' heartland, unarmed, and outnumbered 20-to-1, Ashby devised a plan to escape from the hostile jungles that would test fate and challenge all reason. They should have been doomed.
Against All Odds is the incredible true story of that escape-and of the heart-pounding courage of Major Phil Ashby who defeated the rebel forces of Sierra Leone and became a living testament to the power of the human spirit and the sheer determination to survive.
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 18, 2003
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March 10, 2025
Creo este libro no fue para mí. Me costó siete intentos terminarlo. Al final, lo conseguí. Sin embargo, creo que no es una lectura para todo el mundo.
En ella, el Mayor Phil Ashby nos narra sus memorias desde su adolescencia y amor por la adrenalina, hasta su adultez y desesperación por salir con vida de la guerra entre Rebeldes y Combatientes en Sierra Leona.
En ella, el Mayor Phil Ashby nos narra sus memorias desde su adolescencia y amor por la adrenalina, hasta su adultez y desesperación por salir con vida de la guerra entre Rebeldes y Combatientes en Sierra Leona.
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