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Out Of Captivity Surviving 1967 Days In The Colombian Jungle Gary Brozek Marc Gonsalves Tom Howes Keith Stansell by Gary Brozek & Marc Gonsalves & Tom Howes & Keith Stansell 9780061868610, 0061868612 instant download after payment.
Out of Captivity
On February 13, 2003, a
plane carrying three American civilian contractors--Marc Gonsalves,
Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes--crash-landed in the mountainous jungle of
Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they emerged from the plane bloodied and
injured as gunfire rained down around them. As of that moment they were
prisoners of the FARC, a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel
organization. In an instant they had become American captives in
Colombia's volatile and ongoing conflict, which has lasted for almost
fifty years. In Out of Captivity, Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount
for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and,
ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of
the FARC. Their story takes you inside one of the world's most notorious
terrorist organizations, going behind enemy lines with vivid and
haunting imagery. Their words conjure a reality that few people have
ever encountered--from sleeping on beds literally carved out of the
jungle to escaping Colombian military air strikes under the cover of
darkness to being bound with steel chains by their captors. Describing
backbreaking starvation marches and forced isolation, the authors
chronicle their confrontations and interactions with the FARC guerrilla
soldiers--a motley crew of brainwashed, idealistic teenagers and
seasoned vet-erans who've been around long enough to realize that the
only way out of the FARC is in a body bag. Though the physical
punishments their bodies endured were unrelenting, the psychological
battles they waged were the ultimate test of their resolve. With candid
detail, Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes relate the perilous mental
struggles they each experienced, as they grappled with feelings of
guilt, fear, and anxiety for the families and lives they'd left behind.
Exposing the transformative power of captivity, they show how they
turned these fears into strengths, using their memories and their
families, their pasts and their futures, to motivate them in their quest
for survival. Despite the odds and the conditions, despite the chains
and the silence, and despite the often tense relationships they
experienced with their fellow Colombian hostages, they had one another,
forging a bond that allowed them to cope with the horrific conditions of
their confinement. This brotherhood enabled them to persevere through
the worst that the FARC threw at them while always reminding them of
