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Terry Waite
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Footfalls in Memory
Best known as a lecturer, a hostage negotiator, and as a Beirut hostage himself, Terry Waite here collects and comments on excerpts from his favorite books read during his confinement, the ones he remembers from his past, and the ones he wished he had been given. Line drawings.
Terry Waite
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Out of the Silence
At the height of the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s over 100 foreign civilians were taken hostage by Islamic Jihad. As the Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy, Terry Waite conducted several successful missions to negotiate the release of numerous hostages. But in January 1987, while on one of his many visits to Beirut, he was captured himself. Imprisoned for nearly five years, four of them in solitary confinement, he was chained, beaten, frequently blindfolded, and subjected to a mock execution. In this moving sequence of poems and reflections Terry Waite recalls the highs and lows of his life, both during that ordeal and throughout the happier years of humanitarian work that have fo...
Taken on Trust
This autobiography describes the hours before and after Terry Waite was taken hostage in January 1987 in Beirut. Waite analyzes his thoughts and feelings immediately prior to captivity - what was the nature of his role as envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury? What was his relationship with the Americans and Colonel Oliver North? The book looks at Waite from his upbringing in Styal, Cheshire, until after his release in November 1991, when he had become one of the best-known figures of his time. It is an account of his years in solitary confinement and of the inner strengths which enabled him to survive.
Terry Waite and Ollie North
Ollie North choreographed many of Terry Waite's movements in the Middle East.
Terry Waite
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Solitude
If anyone understands Solitude, it’s Terry Waite. After five years spent in solitary confinement during his faught kidnapping in the 80s, Terry Waite has had decades to think about what being solitary means, and how it affects us. He explores why some people avoid being alone at every cost, whilst others can think of nothing more peaceful than being well and truly by themselves, and how those feelings can change with time. This book is all about his encounters with people who live a solitary life in many different ways and guises. Some who live out in the most remote of locations, shunning all manner of modern society; some who find themselves solitude in the anonymous flow of crowds in bu...
Terry Waite
Looks at the life of the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy, attempts to portray Waite's complex personality, and explains how he was able to negotiate the release of Middle Eastern hostages
