Running for My Life: Captive of the Revolutionary United Front (Ruf) Rebels of Sierra Leone

by Victor F.M. Mosele, Fr. Victor F.M. Mosele, SX

Breathtaking and cruel, the 11-year civil war in Sierra Leone, Africa, becomes frighteningly real with the capture of Catholic missionary Victor Mosele. His true story of surviving two harrowing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893757528
• ISBN13: 9781893757523
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: E.T. Nedder Publishing
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A true story, recounted vividly and articulately. Absolutely gripping!

I picked up this book after going to bed at about 11.00pm. The fact is, I simply couldn't drop it! I eventually finished, looked at the clock and found it was 3.40am. I must congratulate Fr. Victor; he paints such a vivid picture with his words that I almost felt transported to the location myself. What an experience....what a story! There are many people capable of recording facts, but it is a gift when those facts can be brought to life so acutely. I was so touched by the many acts of kindness shown to him, which he relates so admirably. My own abiding memories of Africa will always be of a similar nature; of the very poorest members of society insisting upon sharing the very little they had with me, and my feelings of total inadequacy in ever being able to match their richness of spirit, although striving (in my ham-fisted way!) to try. Despite the harrowing nature of Fr. Victor's ordeal, he also manages to raise a smile at the end of the book, but I won't spoil it by going into that! I will always treasure this book and try to remember, in particular, to pray for the children caught up in the sort of living hell that was Sierra Leone a decade ago; a story - at times harrowing - perfectly illustrating the power of faith and human endeavour over adversity, told simply and with great humility.

Running For My Life, an account of a Catholic missionary priest's experiences as a prisoner of an AF

The book, RUNNING FOR MY LIFE, by Fr. Victor Mosele S.X., is a factual account of some of what he experienced as a two time captive of the rebel forces during Sierra Leone's recent civil war. While it is not a great piece of literature, it does not pretend nor try to be one. Rather it offers an inciteful look into a horrible war through the experiences of an eye witness. While brutally frank at times as well as touchingly moving, it is never contrived and allows the reader to know Fr. Mosele's beliefs while leaving room to come to one's own.

What the U.S. News Did NOT Tell You. . .

Powerful, riveting and nearly surreal, Father Victor's story is one that stirs both an intellectual and an emotional response in the reader. Set in the late 1990s in the middle of the Bill Clinton scandal, Father Victor shows us what the news did not. In his story he opens the reader's eyes to the harsh truth of what happens to innocent people in a war-torn society. The atrocities he describes are almost unreal, but they are true and are still occuring in similar regions of the world. A truly inspiring read, Father Victor's narrative also one that gives the spiritually-weary reader hope. Through his writing the one sees the importance of faith, perseverence, and trusting completely in God. Having been captured TWICE by the RUF rebels who gouge out eyes or cut off limbs of another human being, Father Victor makes it to freedom both times with all limbs intact. An amazing story that reads almost like a fictional novel, but it is true!