A Soldier's Song: True Stories from the Falklands

by KenLukowiak (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

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  1994

  $3.36

  Having served with 2 Para in the Falklands, Ken Lukowiak conveys the dislocations of modern warfare, from the voyage down aboard the MV Norland , to Goose Green, Fitzroy, and the anticlimactic journey home. The text is interspersed with passages describing how, while waiting for the next burst of action, the author's mind wanders: he dreams; he remembers his other life, as son and husband; and these passages provide a sharp and telling counterpoint to the grim business at hand.

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  An utterly compelling and much needed reminder of what war is really all about. In 1982 Private Ken Lukowiak served with 2 Para in the Falklands. He was away from home for little more than eight weeks, yet the experience of war was to change his life for ever. Ten years passed before he was able to write about this brief period in his life. In those ten years he was brought face to face with the legacy of his Parachute Regiment training and with the knowledge that he had seen many men die - some of whom he himself had killed. From the voyage 'down South' on the MV Norland, from Goose Green to Fitzroy and the anti-climactic journey home Lukowiak illustrates the madness and black comedy of the soldier's world. He tells his painfully honest story in spare and brutal language and is both profound and often profoundly shocking.