Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.Geraint Jones
The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers
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Through conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the vivid memoir of British sniper Craig Harrison.
It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan, under intense pressure, he saved the lives of his comrades with the longest confirmed sniper kill – 2,475 metres, the length of twenty-five football pitches.
In The Longest Kill, his unflinching autobiography, Craig catapults us into the heat of the action as he describes his active service in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, and gives heart-stopping accounts of his sniper ops as he fought for his life on the rooftops of Basra and the barren hills of Helmand province. Craig was blown up by an IED in Afghanistan and left battling severe PTSD. After his identity was revealed in the press he also had to cope with Al Qaeda threats against him and his family. For Craig, the price of heroism has been devastatingly high.
© 2016 Macmillan Digital Audio (Ljudbok): 9781509833634
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 19 maj 2016
The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers
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- Med
- Förlag
- 757 Recensioner
4.4
- Längd
- 9T 32min
- Språk
- Engelska
- Format
- Kategori
Biografier
Through conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the vivid memoir of British sniper Craig Harrison.
It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan, under intense pressure, he saved the lives of his comrades with the longest confirmed sniper kill – 2,475 metres, the length of twenty-five football pitches.
In The Longest Kill, his unflinching autobiography, Craig catapults us into the heat of the action as he describes his active service in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, and gives heart-stopping accounts of his sniper ops as he fought for his life on the rooftops of Basra and the barren hills of Helmand province. Craig was blown up by an IED in Afghanistan and left battling severe PTSD. After his identity was revealed in the press he also had to cope with Al Qaeda threats against him and his family. For Craig, the price of heroism has been devastatingly high.
© 2016 Macmillan Digital Audio (Ljudbok): 9781509833634
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 19 maj 2016
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Martin
26 mars 2021
This is blackness and sorrow, mixed with a lot of love for a craft, a family and comerades. This is not the want-to-impress stylish military litterature I expected when I began reading/listning! Mr Harrison has seen the backside of military service, but has come out on the other side, very much alive thanks to his family, his own strength and...maybe braveness... This is a thriller, not because of the action, however awfull that is, but because Mr. Harrison describes his feelings and remorse, an the neglect of an institution that should have been there and helped, but turned it's back. Simplest way to describe it - read it!
Glenn
22 maj 2021
BladvändareSo fucking good. You will know wy i was writing like this, if you lisend to this splended book.
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25 feb. 2020
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Markus
27 juli 2016
Välskrivet vittnesmål om livet som sniper i engelska kavalleriet. Författaren lämnar helt ut sitt liv för beskådan, och belyser problem soldater kan uppleva efter tjänstgöring. Jag gillar soldsthistorier skriva i första persons perspektiv, som den här boken är. Rekommenderas varmt!
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31 juli 2017
En bok som verkligen berör. Mycket bättre än jag förväntade mig.
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25 jan. 2017
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Oscar
16 jan. 2017
Spännande, rå och dödlig. Samtidigt tragiskt att läsa hur armen kan behandla sin personal.
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19 feb. 2017
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