Full Book Description
Philip Woodhall writes with an eye for accurate detail and an uncompromising, ‘tell it like it is’ sense of humour that is evident both in his life and written work. Iraq and Back tells the true story of a man who gets duped into joining the army and years later finds himself in the heat and fear of the desert in the Gulf during the largest mobilisation of the Territorial Army since the Second World War. Realising that he needs to do the right thing, he marries his childhood sweetheart after a 17 year engagement, in the short three week period between notification and mobilisation. If you are looking for an all action war story about the conflict in Iraq then this is not the book for you. It gives the real facts of the emotional roller coaster involved when leaving three young children and a wife, having never been away from home for more than two weeks before. Describing events as they happen through a series of emails sent home to hundreds of people, he writes straight from the heart telling what daily life is like out there for both a British Soldier and the Iraqi people. It concludes with having to re-adapt back into civilian life afterwards.
Be guaranteed, you will laugh and you will cry …………. But make sure you read this book
