Against All Odds Escape from Sierra Leone

Under Siege These bright blue badges are a symbol of UN neutrality and supposed to guarantee the safety of the person who wears them, but all they will do is make us show up more easily in the dark... We are no longer Observers. From now on, despite being unarmed, we are combatants. Andy, Dave and Paul have only known me a few days. I ask them to trust me. We have no more preparations to make, and there seems little point in waiting any longer. I suggest we go now, and the others agree. I whisper "Good luck guys. Stay close behind me." Then I climb over the wall and drop into no man's land... "An astute assessment of the perils of 'peacekeeping'."-Daily Mirror (four star review) "What kind of a bloke goes for a run up a Scottish mountainside with his fiancÉe and their chaplain on the eve of their marriage and makes an off-color remark about how he hopes his missus-to-be will not be quite so sweet the next morning? Then gets held down in an SAS arm-lock by the vicar while his betrothed 'pushed my face in the mud'? The kind of bloke you want on your side."-Evening StandardAshby, Philip H. is the author of 'Against All Odds Escape from Sierra Leone' with ISBN 9780312989217 and ISBN 0312989210.