Path to Freedom: My Story of Perseverance

By Conrad Taylor

“Conrad- I finished reading your manuscript, it was riveting! I think it should be made into a movie. You provided me with an enlightening look into a country I knew very little about, and into a fellow West Pointer who, after reading his work, I feel I could call a friend and a compatriot.” - Kevin Mckeown, West Point Class of 1977

“Path to Freedom” is an inspirational memoir. It charts a sometimes-humorous journey of perseverance, resilience, hope, survival, and love, as its author traverses between a remote mining town in Guyana’s Amazon jungle and the highly-regimented United States Military Academy - at the height of the Vietnam War. It has a simple proposition - fly-or-die. The narrative sums up rude awakenings, especially after West Point - because of West Point.
The book describes what happened upon the author’s return in 1973 to a government turned repressive, anti-American, and paranoid - overnight. The Soviet-leaning, Cold-War-era dictatorship feared regime change.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781617925047