A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka

by Ajith Boyagoda and Commodore Ajith Boyagoda as told to Sunila Galappatti

Book Overview

A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war.
Pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea, Commodore Boyagoda became the highest-ranking prisoner detained by the Tamil Tigers. For eight years, he lived at close quarters with his declared enemy, his imprisonment punctuated by high-level talks about his fate, but also by extended conversations with his jailers and scratch games of badminton...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849046409
• ISBN13: 9781849046404
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"