The Accidental Soldier : Dispatches from Quite Near the Front Line by Owain Mulligan
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The Accidental Soldier : Dispatches from Quite Near the Front Line by Owain Mulligan

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The Accidental Soldier : Dispatches from Quite Near the Front Line by Owain MulliganThis book is absolutely incredible. It made me laugh more than any book in so many years. I found the writing just so unbelievably brilliant and hilarious and affecting . . . I am crazy about it! Marina HydeI loved it . . . relentlessly funny and really well written John OliverAuthentic and compulsive Richard E. GrantA fascinating insight into the often farcical chaos and catastrophe of war. Reads like a non fiction Catch 22. Compelling, enlightening

This book is absolutely incredible. It made me laugh more than any book in so many years. I found the writing just so unbelievably brilliant and hilarious and affecting . . . I am crazy about it! - Marina HydeI loved it . . . relentlessly funny and really well written - John OliverAuthentic and compulsive - Richard E. GrantA fascinating insight into the often farcical chaos and catastrophe of war. Reads like a non-fiction Catch-22. Compelling, enlightening and bleakly funny. A jaw-dropping read. - Matt HaigAn instant classic - a deeply funny and mordant book about war. - Richard CurtisOwain Mulligan was never what you'd call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they'd let him wear a helmet in Iraq.

But when the job in headquarters he's been expecting doesn't materialise, he finds himself on the streets of Basra during one of the most violent periods of the conflict. Between homicidal militias, a chain of command who seem determined to get him killed, and equipment which might well do it for them, he and his men have their work cut out. It certainly puts double geography with 9E into perspective.

The Accidental Soldier is a searingly honest and darkly funny account of what it was really like being in the British Army in Iraq (including all the bits they probably hoped you'd never find out). We share all the hardships, fears, and occasional lunacy of military life as Owain and his men try to navigate a war gone badly wrong. One thing's for sure; you'll never look at the phrase 'military precision' in quite the same way again...

------100% of the author's royalty earnings (expected to be at least £20,000) from sales of the book in the UK & Commonwealth will be given to War Child (a registered charity, charity number 1071659) and its wholly owned subsidiary War Child Trading Limited (a registered company, company number 05100189).

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Binding: Hardback,
Pagination: 320 pages, N/A
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