Caught in the Crossfire by Matina Jewell


Caught in the Crossfire: An Australian Peace Keeper Beyond the Front-lineCaught in the Crossfire: An Australian Peace Keeper Beyond the Front-line

by Matina Jewell

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 team-mates 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 metres 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, honourable 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.

  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Published: 01 May 2011
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
  • ISBN 13: 9781742375670
  • ISBN 10: 1742375677

 

Priced at 28th September 2011

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