Caught in the Crossfire
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Caught in the Crossfire

An Australian Peacekeeper Beyond the Front-line

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eBook - ePub

Caught in the Crossfire

An Australian Peacekeeper Beyond the Front-line

About this book

In 2006, while part of an unarmed UN peacekeeping team at the border junction of Lebanon, Israel, and Syria, Australian Major Matina Jewell and her colleagues were caught in a full-scale war with tragic consequences. In the days that followed she and her teammates reported hundreds of violations of the peace agreement as Israeli artillery, tank fire, and aerial bombs, as well as rockets fired by Hezbollah fighters, exploded only meters away and shrapnel rained down around them. But the story does not end there. Matti Jewell is the kind of soldier every country is proud to have—fearless, honorable, and highly skilled. A star graduate from Duntroon by the age of only 24, she became a highly valued army commander. In the years that followed, she earned eight war medals, tracking militia leaders in the Solomons, fast-roping out of Navy helicopters, and boarding smuggler ships in the Arabian Gulf, as well as serving on operations with the American Navy SEALS and Australian Special Forces. Caught in the Crossfire is a frighteningly dramatic first-hand account of what really happens in modern warfare and the high price our soldiers pay for their country.

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Information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781742693156
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. DEDICATION
  5. CONTENTS
  6. PROLOGUE: UNARMED SITTING DUCKS
  7. 1. EDUCATING MARWA
  8. 2. AN UNEXPECTED COMPLICATION
  9. 3. MY HEART AND HEAD AT WAR
  10. 4. OUR BLONDE AUSSIE LASS
  11. 5. SOUKS, HAMMAMS AND A CHICKEN KILLER
  12. 6. HISTORIC BEAUTY AND NEW FRIENDS
  13. 7. DANGER IN GHAJAR
  14. 8. AND THEN CAME A WAR
  15. 9. NEAR MISS
  16. 10. LACK OF LOGIC AND LOGISTICS
  17. 11. DISEMPOWERED AND DISILLUSIONED
  18. 12. ROTATION, ROTATION
  19. 13. A TREACHEROUS JOURNEY
  20. 14. A LIFE-CHANGING MOMENT
  21. 15. NIGHTMARE EVACUATION
  22. 16. MAYHEM IN CYPRUS
  23. 17. AN UNTHINKABLE TRAGEDY
  24. 18. LIFE’S TOUGH LESSONS
  25. 19. CHALLENGES ON THE HIGH SEAS
  26. 20. ADVENTURES IN PARADISE
  27. 21. BROKEN IN MIND AND BODY
  28. 22. BATTLES ON THE HOME FRONT
  29. 23. THE BUMPY ROAD BACK
  30. EPILOGUE: THE BOMBING OF PB KHIAM
  31. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  32. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  33. AFTERWORD