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The Sunday Times Bestseller At the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, he led a charge across open ground with insurgents firing at just five soldiers. On his return, he was awarded the Military Cross. But Brian's story had only just begun. Struggling to re-integrate into family life, he suffered from PTSD. Then, five years later, a letter arrived: it summoned him to give evidence at the Al-Sweady Inquiry into allegations of war crimes by British soldiers during the Iraq invasion of 2003. After years of public shame, Brian took the stand and delivered a powerful testimony, and following the tense inquiry room scenes, justice was finally served. Phil Shiner, the lawyer who made the false accusations, was struck off and stripped of an honorary doctorate. In this compelling memoir, Brian speaks powerfully and movingly about the three battles in his life, from being ambushed with no cover, to the mental battle to adjust at home, to being falsely accused of hideous war crimes. It's a remarkable and dark curve which ends with his honour restored but, as he says, it was too little, too late.
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The Sunday Times Bestseller that inspired BBC drama Danny Boy At the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, he led a charge across open ground with insurgents firing at just five soldiers. On his return, he was awarded the Military Cross. But Brian's story had only just begun. Struggling to re-integrate into family life, he suffered from PTSD. Then, five years later, a letter arrived: it summoned him to give evidence at the Al-Sweady Inquiry into allegations of war crimes by British soldiers during the Iraq invasion of 2003. After years of public shame, Brian took the stand and delivered a powerful testimony, and following...
With the U.S. poised to steamroll its way into the city, Matty lends his Liberty News secure phone line to DMZ citizens to reach out to loved ones outside the city, a direct violation of his contract.
The story of Brian Wood, Sportsman, Musician, Teacher, Christian, Family Man. Brian was a 'man's man', remembered for his exceptional abilities in sport, mountaineering and music, focused and expressed in the only profession where his abilities and passion could have the maximum benefit and impact on young lives - teaching in boarding schools. Brian's life touched and inspired countless lives. His own source of inspiration was not primarily the mountaineering and sporting heroes he so admired, nor the music of Handel or Bach, but the person of Jesus Christ whose life and example he tried to follow in humble service. That is what I find so inspiring about Brian Wood. John Barclay, Principal, Hebron School, India
It's hard enough being a teenager. Now try being a teenager with powers. Demo chronicles the lives of young people who are on their separate journeys to self-discovery in a world--just like our own--where being different is feared. This definitive edition of Demo by Brian Wood (The New York Four, The Massive) and Becky Cloonan (The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys) collects the entirety of the series, eighteen short stories across multiple genres, and stands as an indie comics classic
A child and their dog explore the woods. As they look around they think what it would be like if dragons were actually living there. There are strange footprints in the mud, there is mist coming from a cave that looks like dragons' breath and, hidden in the fallen leaves, could those be dragon eggs? A wonderful, imaginative picture book to share with young readers with pictures that take their inspiration from medieval woodcuts of dragons and their glowing colors from stained glass windows.
Love, war, family and the best hummus recipe in New York City Scooter enthusiast and spoiled brat, Olive Yassin, delivers food for her parents' award-winning Middle Eastern restaurant, Couscous Express. She hates it. It's boring. She would much rather be hanging out with her courier-mercenary boyfriend, Moustafa. But when the local branch of the stylish and dangerous Turkish Scooter Mafia make a move against the restaurant, she knows she has to do something, anything, to protect her family. Couscous Express combines delicious food, automatic weapons fire, and scooter culture into a hectic, adrenaline-fueled story of love, family, war, and the best hummus recipe in New York City.
When the Cramp family goes to Soap City's annual Country and Western Club Barbecue, Lucien Cramp gets to watch as Wayne, the twin brother who likes to torture him, finds himself in big trouble.