Out of the Silence: Memories, Poems, Reflections

by Terry Waite

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0281077614
• ISBN13: 9780281077618
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"