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Red One: The bestselling true story of a bomb disposal expert on the front line in Iraq
Kevin Ivison
c 2000 to c 2010, Biography: historical, political & military, True war & combat stories, Prose: non-fiction, Military history: post WW2 conflicts
The gripping true story of bomb disposal work that won Ivison a George Medal - and started a living nightmare...
When two of his colleagues are killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, young bomb disposal officer Kevin Ivison is called in to defuse a second even deadlier bomb just a hundred yards from the bodies of his friends. To make things worse, the entire area is under fire from snipers and a crowd of angry Iraqis have begun to hurl petrol bombs...
With little chance of living through this impossible task, Kevin leaves final messages for his loved ones and sets out alone towards the bomb that he is sure will be the last thing he sees.
In this gut-wrenching and terrifying true story of heroism and survival, Kevin Ivison explains why he chose to be a bomb disposal expert in the first place, how he found the courage to face his death and the unendurable stress that has given him nightmares ever since.
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