The aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion is a story that has yet to be told by those who fought their own war against a brutal insurgency: the private security operators. Risking life and limb, often side by side with the US military but far more exposed, they were never to receive a hero's homecoming. Remaining in the shadows, often with good cause, that would change for ever on 31 March 2004, when a security convoy was ambushed in Fallujah and the charred bodies of four American operators were strung from a road bridge. Those events would ensure notoriety for the company involved: Blackwater.
This is the untold story of those events; of the security industry and their private war; and of Blackwater's war in Iraq - recounted by the man who was there to witness it all, SAS veteran Barrie Rice. His visceral, no-holds-barred account is brought to life in vivid, often shocking, scenes and laced with the dark humour of the moment. This gripping account delivers a compelling slice of reality - the inside story of the private contractor's war.
We Were Blackwater provides a unique, revelatory insight into this high-octane, life-and-death world, where adventurers and wannabes can thrive or die, living out their dreams and their fantasies with fearsome firepower and few, if any, rules.
| ISBN: | 9781785908149 |
| Publication date: | 28th August 2023 |
| Author: | Barrie Rice |
| Publisher: | Biteback Publishing an imprint of Biteback Publishing, Ltd. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 496 pages |
| Genres: |
Military history Special and elite forces |
The aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion is a story that has yet to be told by those who fought their own war against a brutal insurgency: the private security operators. Risking life and limb, often side by side with the US military but far more exposed, they were never to receive a hero's homecoming. Remaining in the shadows, often with good cause, that would change for ever on 31 March 2004, when a security convoy was ambushed in Fallujah and the charred bodies of four American operators were strung from a road bridge. Those events would ensure notoriety for the company involved: Blackwater.
This is the untold story of those events; of the security industry and their private war; and of Blackwater's war in Iraq - recounted by the man who was there to witness it all, SAS veteran Barrie Rice. His visceral, no-holds-barred account is brought to life in vivid, often shocking, scenes and laced with the dark humour of the moment. This gripping account delivers a compelling slice of reality - the inside story of the private contractor's war.
We Were Blackwater provides a unique, revelatory insight into this high-octane, life-and-death world, where adventurers and wannabes can thrive or die, living out their dreams and their fantasies with fearsome firepower and few, if any, rules.
We Were Blackwater features in the following genres: Military history, Special and elite forces
We Were Blackwater is available in Hardback
We Were Blackwater was written by Barrie Rice and published by Biteback Publishing an imprint of Biteback Publishing, Ltd.
We Were Blackwater has 496 pages