Blog Tour: SURVIVING THE UNITED NATIONS by Robert Bruce Adolph

 

SURVIVING THE UNITED NATIONS

Robert Bruce Adolph

 

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GENRE:  NonFiction

 

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BLURB:

 

This is the astonishing true story of a US Army Special Forces soldier who became a warrior for peace. In his humanitarian and peacekeeping missions for the United Nations he dealt with child-soldiers, blood diamonds, a double hostage-taking, an invasion by brutal guerrillas, an emergency aerial evacuation, a desperate hostage recover mission, tribal gunfights, refugee camp violence, suicide bombings, and institutional corruption. His UN career brought him face to face with the best and worst of human nature and he shares it all here.

 

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Excerpt Three:

 

In 1996 a former UN official, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, was elected President. The new President’s first order of business was to sign a peace treaty with Sankoh that rapidly failed. Sankoh continued to maintain control of the most valuable diamond-producing areas. The following year, the fledgling President was overthrown by Major Johnny Paul Koroma and the Sierra Leone Army. Koroma immediately suspended the Constitution, outlawed demonstrations, and abolished all political parties. President Kabbah beat a hasty retreat to the country of Guinea, immediately to the north and east of Sierra Leone.

 

Two years later, the Nigerian-led Western African Intervention Force entered Freetown to cheering crowds. The cheers died quickly when the RUF later attempted to take Freetown by force. The UN Military Observer mission in Sierra Leone evacuated its staff northward to Conakry, Guinea. Its headquarters compound was subsequently burned-out by the RUF.

 

The West African Intervention Force subsequently retook Freetown. The RUF returned to the bush, while maintaining control of the diamond-producing areas in the south and east of the country. The UN then arranged a ceasefire. Later, in Lomé, Togo, an UN-brokered peace agreement was signed between Kabbah’s government and the RUF. Not many in Sierra Leone believed that the peace agreement would hold. Fear was omnipresent. Nobody knew what the future might hold.

 

Confirmed reports spoke to many RUF atrocities. Because they had lost the previously held general election, their revenge was to cut off the hands of over 1,000 residents of Freetown. This equated in their minds to punishment for voting the wrong way.

 

 

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 Topic: What habits did you practice while writing this book?

 

I tried to write something every day. If there is a lesson here, that might be it. Write every day, especially when you don’t wish to….
The writing took three years. The rewrites took up most of that time. I move often between continents. I write wherever I am and as the mood strikes. My first book was written at the kitchen table, including three re-writes. My current book will be completed at a desk and in a room set aside for the purpose of writing. 

Do not permit surroundings to dictate when or how often you write. Writers will practice their vocation in the rain under a tent. Where is not important.  What you have to say might be.

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Robert Bruce Adolph is a retired UN Chief Security Advisor & US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel.  He holds master’s degrees in both International Affairs (Middle East Studies) from American University’s School of International Service and National Security Studies and Strategy from the US Army’s Command and General Staff College. 

 

Adolph served nearly 26-years in multiple Special Forces, Counterterrorism, Psychological Operations, Civil Affairs, Foreign Area Officer, and Military Intelligence command and staff assignments in the US and overseas. He also volunteered to serve on UN peacekeeping missions in Egypt, Israel, Cambodia, Iraq and Kuwait.

 

After he retired from active military service in 1997, he began a second career as a senior UN Security Advisor. Among his positions he served as the Chief of the Middle East and North Africa in the UN Department of Safety and Security.

 

Website: https://robertbruceadolph.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-bruce-adolph-904597a/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.adolph

 

 

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