Army Be the Best: Sean Connolly

Name: Army Be the Best: Sean Connolly
Brand: Broadhursts Books
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Surrogate Fathers blows the lid off how British boy soldiers were treated back in the 1970's. A brilliant account of life as a young soldier... brutal, cruel and dangerous!' "Bleeding on my Father's carpet was the least of my worries, getting into the British army was my biggest concern." I had decided that the only way out of the violence from my home-life was to enrol as a Junior Soldier as soon as I was sixteen. But it was out of the frying pan and into the ﬁre, because the Army had grossly underestimated the number of wannabe artillery soldiers wanting to join the regiment and had to whittle down 900 to just 200. The way they did this was brutal, cruel and dangerous. It is a harrowing emotional journey that rises from the ashes of despair to prove that the human spirit can transcend bullying and abuse and ﬁnd humour and reconciliation in even the darkest hours. The Seventies were the end of an era and though we ﬁnally may have got colour on our tellies, morally things were still very black and white. It was a time when 'men were men', except sometimes they weren't, they were just boys, just abused, bullied and tormented boys living in a hell not of their making and trying desperately to ﬁnd a way out. And this is the story of one such boy...

ISBN: 9781943093878

Book Condition: New

Book Authors: Sean Connolly

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Book Pages: 484

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