In Foreign Fields

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...I said. MSfe, the wagon's damaged and you'reon your own. Fix bayúnets, get out and go right...good luck If we ran out of ammunition, that didn't bear thinking about. You'd had those six RMPs wasted.,.1 could see us getting overrun, dragged through the streets and beheaded on TV. We decided we'd take our own lives rather than fali into their hands I was cradling Beharry in my lap, just talking to him. I thought he was»going to die I still think about Bryan a lot. He was a very, very high quality corporal. He'd show you photos of his family... Alright, boss? Hey...have you seen these? This is my wife. This is my darling little girl I was terrified. What on earth's happening? Am I going to die here? We had a totál of 188 major contacts... was the same, intense.J to get through family.l l..he was overthe srghts thought, Is he trigger?.'.. ...the for the next day rounds of 7.62... AK just stood us. F***! Where from? I dropped BRITISH MEDÁL WINNERS IN THEIR OWN WORDS ...every ambush... Tovább

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...I said. MSfe, the wagon's damaged and you'reon your own. Fix bayúnets, get out and go right...good luck If we ran out of ammunition, that didn't bear thinking about. You'd had those six RMPs wasted.,.1 could see us getting overrun, dragged through the streets and beheaded on TV. We decided we'd take our own lives rather than fali into their hands I was cradling Beharry in my lap, just talking to him. I thought he was»going to die I still think about Bryan a lot. He was a very, very high quality corporal. He'd show you photos of his family... Alright, boss? Hey...have you seen these? This is my wife. This is my darling little girl I was terrified. What on earth's happening? Am I going to die here? We had a totál of 188 major contacts... was the same, intense.J to get through family.l l..he was overthe srghts thought, Is he trigger?.'.. ...the for the next day rounds of 7.62... AK just stood us. F***! Where from? I dropped BRITISH MEDÁL WINNERS IN THEIR OWN WORDS ...every ambush only more thought, /Ve got this for my screaming at me of his AK47.1 going to puli the ammo supply | was 47,000 ...a guy with an up right near $ did he come my rifle and emptied my 9mm into him I put him over my shoulders and sprinted back as fast as I could. You find strength you didn't know you had...the weight of fire was massive, but we made it back without being hit I heard the cráck of the rounds and Mr Neal got somé shrapnel in the face...the blokés just dived straight into the sewerage ditches I felt this dull thud, like getting hit with a sledge hammer. I shbuted, /Ve been shot! They were just spraying the rooms. I know l'd laid men down but I really didn't want to kill anyone else... ...there's no time to react...the RPG passed right between me and Gary...we were only three feet apart another Warrior came barrelling through and tbis massive barrage of RPGs - five, six, seven of them - all hit it at once. It just disappeared in the explosions and I thought, Those boys are dead I reached the first of them, in a trench where the elephant grass was petering out. He was six feet aw$y, sort of frozen. If he'd had time to get over the shock, he-„ would have fired at me. I shot him severaMimes before he had charfte I rah across the bridge towards or 20 metres away, firing at killed people and I felt bad ...I cut the detonators cordi'.copper dis^s for explosive.vvery nasty. Were ten of them as he the two guys. They were.15 me I dwelled on havlng about it...really bad... off and removed the det Ifl the projectile and plastic Eventuaily, I realised there. knelt up, he was shot in the heart.>.he died leadinghis men frdm»the ffont, and fdo i feel somé pride in'llhat.^t isn't a Lad way fora éoldier tcrgo... ^ r www.mondaybooks.com i m i 9780955285486 Vissza