TAKEN HOSTAGE – An Agent of the Service Action Speaks
TAKEN HOSTAGE – An Agent of the Service Action...

TAKEN HOSTAGE – An Agent of the Service Action Speaks

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"I was a hostage. I lived through dark hours, locked in the cells of an Islamist Katiba. I had made myself a promise: if I survive, I will bear witness to what I lived through. That prospect helped me not to sink into despair or madness. I am a soldier, a man of the field, a former member of the Service Action of the DGSE. All my life I chose danger, perilous missions, combat. I survived, but this ordeal changed me forever. When you have faced each day as if it were your last, can you truly consider yourself saved simply because you have regained your freedom? "

In this account of remarkable power, Pierre Martinet revisits for the first time the terrible days of captivity he endured in Libya during the Arab Spring. He recounts how he managed to hold on by escaping mentally, drawing on his past as a commando instructor and on the particular training he received at the Service Action. A book that plunges us, like no other, into the psychology of an elite soldier.

A book that plunges us, like no other, into the psychology of an elite soldier.

 

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Author 1
Pierre Martinet
Publication date
October 2022
Pages
262
Cover
Paperback
Format
14.3 cm × 21.8 cm
Language
French
Publisher
Mareuil Editions
EAN
9782372542692

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