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Gripping true story of bomb disposal work that won Captain Kevin Ivison a George Medal - and started a living nightmare... 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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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.
ISBN: 9780753828304
Publication date: 07/07/2011
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback
| ISBN: | 9780753828304 |
| Publication date: | 7th July 2011 |
| Author: | Kevin Ivison |
| Publisher: | Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Genres: | Action Adventure / Spy, Biography / Autobiography, eBook Favourites, The Real World, |
| Categories: | True war & combat stories, Asian history, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Memoirs, |
Captain Kevin Ivison, GM, was commissioned into the army in 2000, and served in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and Iraq, where his work as a bomb disposal expert won him the George Medal. Since leaving the army in April 2009 he has been working for the Ministry of Defence.
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