AFGHANISTAN + TALIBAN + ROYAL IRISH = DOUG BEATTIE'S HELLISH HELMAND BATTLE IN WAR ON TERROR
You've seen the film - now read the book, An Ordinary Soldier, described by the Sunday Times as a 'riveting read and compelling memoir'. In 2006 Royal Irish Regiment captain Doug Beattie was filmed in Helmand Province for a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary taking part in an action (the Battle of Garmsir, likened to a modern-day Rorke's Drift) which earned him the Military Cross. Now he has tur
More..ned his life into a book. He started writing as a way of communicating the horrors of war to his family, because he found it impossible to talk to them about his experiences. How do you casually tell your wife you have bayoneted a man to death? Or witnessed the effects of a suicide bomb attack? And he's not only seen conflict in Afghanistan. Doug also talks about his time as RSM to Colonel Tim Collins in Iraq in 2003. Oh, and how, at the age of 15, he shot his best mate in the head with a Walther PPK.
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