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Author : David John Harris
Release : 2014
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 762/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sierra Leone by : David John Harris
Download or read book Sierra Leone written by David John Harris. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new political history of the former British colony in West Africa, best known for its diamonds and recent violent civil war, this covers 225 years of history and fills a gap in African studies.
Author : David Keen
Release : 2005
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone by : David Keen
Download or read book Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone written by David Keen. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations' presence in Sierra Leone has made that country a subject of international attention to an unprecedented degree. Once identified as a source of `the New Barbarism', it has also become a proving ground for Western interventions in the war against terrorism. The conventional diplomatic approach to Sierra Leone's civil war is that it has been a contest between two clearly defined sides. Keen demonstrates this is not the case: the various armed groups were fractured throughout the 1990s, often colluded with one another, and had little interest in bringing the war to an end. This book is not only a comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone, it represents a new and innovative approach to the study of war and Third World development and politics generally.
Author : Thomas Masterman Winterbottom
Release : 1803
Genre : Medicine
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Book Synopsis An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone by : Thomas Masterman Winterbottom
Download or read book An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone written by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom. This book was released on 1803. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine E. Bolten
Release : 2012-10-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 788/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis I Did It to Save My Life by : Catherine E. Bolten
Download or read book I Did It to Save My Life written by Catherine E. Bolten. This book was released on 2012-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ethnographically rich, these accounts come to life in beautiful prose. These are inspiring and at times heartbreaking stories of how people living in such difficult and dangerous circumstances find ways to survive, love and take care of each other. This will be a valuable contribution as well as a welcome counter to the more popular images of warzones as places of total immorality.”—Catherine Besteman, author of Transforming Cape Town
Author : Major Phil Ashby
Release : 2003-08-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 779/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Against All Odds by : Major Phil Ashby
Download or read book Against All Odds written by Major Phil Ashby. This book was released on 2003-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In West Africa's war-ravaged Sierra Leone no one 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 mission: 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.
