Eight lives down : the story of a counter-terrorist bomb-disposal operator's tour in Iraq / Chris Hunter.

By:

Hunter, Chris

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Bantam, 2007.Description: 369 pages, [16] pages of color plates : illustrations, portraits, 1 map ; 24 cmISBN:

9780593058657

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Personal narratives -- British.

DDC classification:

956.70443341092 22

LOC classification:

DS79.769 .H86 2007

Summary: "If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task". So goes the bomb technicians prayer before every bomb he defuses. For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four month tour of Iraq.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Non-Fiction	Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage	Non Fiction	956.704 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not for loan		A00468300

"If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task". So goes the bomb technicians prayer before every bomb he defuses. For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four month tour of Iraq.

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