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The life of Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, a Royal Marine with 40 Commando, is a life of bullets, blood, and loyalty, of lives saved and lives taken. A raw recruit at 19, he was one of the first 200 Allied soldiers to invade Iraq as part of an elite force of British Marines and US Special Forces in 2003. In 2004, he suffered a fractured skull following a roadside bomb attack, only to return the action just a week later. After that he was stationed in hellish Afghanistan, where his actions made him the only living recipient of the George Cross Award--a distinction bestowed only on those who perform acts of great heroism or conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger. Croucher has seen vicious fighting, intense gun battles, roadside ambushes, and witnessed the death and injury of close colleagues on an almost daily basis. This is his incredible story: a searing, vivid, non-stop account of one man’s heroism and courage under fire, in the most grueling combat environment since the Second World War. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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A mate left me this book to read and I have to admit I enjoyed it. Following a young lad's quest to become a Royal Marine Commando and training through to his postings in Iraq and Afghanistan this book does well to point out just how brutal and necessary the war on terror is. But for me the poignant moment comes from his return home, a supposed hero and his inability to cope with 'normal' life, and jhis despair that his own country was rotting internally as well. He left the Marines only to find he missed the action and his mates and rejoined in the war against the Taliban, and if Iraq must have seemed a hell hole, this place is Satan's own bathroom.
It finishes as it starts off; the incident and receipt of his George Cross for putting his own life at risk to save others, and his blase meeting with The Queen.
A good book, well told and written, if a little sporadic and peppered with slang and jargon. ( )