One Foot Over the Edge: A Canadian Soldier's Personal Account of the Rwandan Genocide

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Tellwell Talent, Aug 5, 2021 - Biography & Autobiography - 150 pages

"The scars we show become lighthouses for those about to hit the same rock."

- ANONYMOUS.

A quote from the screenplay written by Katelyn Wells, adapted from the book ONE FOOT OVER THE EDGE.


A true story of a young Canadian Soldier returning home from a war-torn Rwanda, after witnessing the most horrific genocide since WWII.


Corporal Shane Mutlow was held at gunpoint for two days by local forces, not knowing whether or not he would live to see another day. Labelled "whereabouts unknown" twice and held against his will while on a major operation by Rwandan government officials, Corporal Mutlow was sent off-road every day into unknown territories deep within the Rwandan jungle.


The genocide in Rwanda left Canadian troops completely unprepared for the tragedies they would be subjected to, from the suicide of a brother-in-arms on Christmas Day to returning home from his deployment to a wife and children who would never know the horrors he had endured.


Just six months spent in the midst of the Rwanda genocide would change this young soldier's life forever.


My name is Shane Mutlow, and I bore witness to what the world wanted to ignore.

This is my story.


Portions of each sale of this book will be donated to Fortitude Farms, a facility which provides equine therapy for those who suffer with mental illness. This is the place Ginger calls home.

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