Reflected Glory

by Carney Lake (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.25

  Carney Lake served in the Royal Marines for six years, rising to the status of Senior NCO. Changing only the names and some of the locations, he describes actual events in Northern Ireland to convey the feeling of the average British soldier in the Province about the job he is paid to do. Inner thoughts about the enemy, why they are the enemy, what he is doing there, and what the conflict is all about, are a constant theme in Carney's accounts of patrols on the streets of Belfast and on border duty round Crossmaglen.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $4.15

  Carney Lake served for six years in a Royal Marines Commando Unit and in this book tells his story - the names of those men involved have been changed to protect their identities, but the events happened as described. The result is arguably as vivid and accurate a depiction of Britain s fighting men as has ever appeared in print. What we can see from the television screen of war and terrorism leaves us with no doubts as to the reality of modern warfare, but what it can t share with us is the feelings of the personalities on the ground as the bullets fly. There are nail-biting descriptions of patrols on the streets of Belfast, of facing an invading army on British sovereign territory in Cyprus and the strain of border duty in South Armagh where every silent rural ditch may prove an explosive and bloody grave. An unputdownable view of what it takes to be a member of the Royal Marines, of the sacrifices to do the job well.