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A Rendezvous with the Enemy: My Brother's Life and Death with the Coldstream Guards in Northern Ireland

A Rendezvous with the Enemy: My Brother's Life and Death with the Coldstream Guards in Northern Ireland

by Darren Ware (Author)

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Synopsis

As a Section Commander in one of the British Army's toughest Infantry regiments, Darren Ware spent a decade with the Royal Green Jackets and fought a vicious border war with the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland. In the 80's and 90's Northern Ireland was a bloody battleground that claimed the lives of hundreds of soldiers. Shortly after joining the army he was sent to Northern Ireland days after he turned 18, and in the prime of his life was sent to confront terrorists. Within 18 months of returning from his first tour he was sent back to Northern Ireland, this time on his 20th birthday, to be confronted with the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the day he arrived and a two year tour of operations that followed. He was awarded a Mention in Despatches in 1992 having disrupted a terrorist attack in Strabane. It was in the sniper-strewn streets of the cities and fields of the countryside of the border region that he began a journey that would make a man of him - in the staunch IRA stronghold of South Armagh - 'Bandit Country' - that took the life of his brother in a massive unforeseen terrorist attack in 1991. The murder of his brother by the IRA reinforced his determination to continue his commitment to serve in Northern Ireland and to assist the RUC in the defeat of terrorism. If you want to know the first hand devastating effect that the IRA terrorists had on a young soldier and his family then read this book. Rendezvous with the Enemy will introduce you to the life of a professional soldier, the operational experience in Northern Ireland and above all, it will lead you along the road to death and the effects of unjustified terrorist murder in Northern Ireland.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Helion & Company
Published: 05 Aug 2010
ISBN 10: 1906033579
ISBN 13: 9781906033576

Media Reviews
This cannot have been an easy book to write, yet it was not a hard book to read. There is no cloying sentimentality, no overblown emotions, just cold and hard facts which are leavened by the very real and special love of one brother for another ... If the reader has never experienced the strange and somewhat dystopian world of that campaign, the ninety percent of boredom and frustration followed by the ten percent of sheer terror and chaos that punctuated the tours, or has little experience of the beauracratic nightmare that trying to operate in that environment, then read this book and sample some of it ... This is a book that deserves a place on the shelf of every soldier, a book that puts into words some of what most of us feel at times. A damn good book. * British Army Rumour Service (ARRSE) website *
Author Bio
Darren Ware was born in Enfield, North London in 1971, and was educated at St Georges Roman Catholic Primary School and St Ignatius College. He left home at the age of 16 and joined the army where he served with the 2nd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets for ten years, including almost three years in Northern Ireland where he was awarded a Mention in Despatches for distinguished service, having disrupted a terrorist attack in Strabane in the West Tyrone border region. Darren also served on operations in Cyprus and Bosnia. He conducted various training exercises worldwide and was an instructor of Infantry weapons and tactics, including a Gunnery Instructor and Nuclear Biological and Chemical Warfare for seven and a half years and also trained recruits for two and a half years in 1993. He left the army in 1997 as a Corporal, after a successful career and joined the police service and now serves in the Armed Response Unit. He married in 1992 and now lives with his wife Melanie and three children in the North West of England.