Biting Through (ePub)
five years in Afghanistan
(Sprache: Englisch)
John Ratcliffe is a quiet man, not the type of person who stands out in a crowd or draws attention to himself. But scratch the surface and you will find a person who has lived anything but a normal life.Once belonging to a group of highly trained soldiers,...
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John Ratcliffe is a quiet man, not the type of person who stands out in a crowd or draws attention to himself. But scratch the surface and you will find a person who has lived anything but a normal life.Once belonging to a group of highly trained soldiers, Ratcliffe left the Australian military to pursue a career in Melbourne, practising alternative medicine. Years later, he was called to Afghanistan for a short assignment as a security contractor. He planned to be back in Australia after a few weeks. Five years later, he finally returned home.Biting Through is the story of what happened in those five years, during one man's descent into the behind-the-headlines reality of the war in Afghanistan. Thrust into a world of terrible danger, Ratcliffe encountered human traffickers, drugs lords, and corrupt officials while the international community looked on and went about its business. He tried to find a way to make a difference to those whose lives he touched, all the while negotiating minefields of dishonesty, only to be betrayed at the final hurdle and incarcerated in a medieval Afghan hellhole, awaiting the death penalty.Biting Through is the true account of John Ratcliffe's experiences, from the streets of Kabul to the fighting in the south of Afghanistan. It is a story about the people he met, the friends he made, and the lives he saved. A testimony to the brutal realities of one of the longest wars in modern history, which was replete with hideous waste and relentless corruption, it is a unique work, written by a man of remarkable courage and fortitude.
Autoren-Porträt von John Ratcliffe
John Ratcliffe was born in Melbourne in 1962. He began his studies in traditional Chinese medicine in the early 1980s, graduating in 1988, before spending six years in the Australian army's Commando regiment and then leaving to resume his career in Chinese medicine. He opened his first clinic, which he ran for 11 years, in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Richmond, and went on to become one of Victoria's first fully qualified Chinese medical practitioners.Ratcliffe left Melbourne for Afghanistan in 2005 on a three-week private-security assignment that morphed into a five-year journey into hell. After returning home in 2010, he found it difficult to hold down a regular job, and was homeless for a short while. In 2013, he left Australia once again to apply his operational experience and medical knowledge in third-world countries.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Ratcliffe
- 2014, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1925113183
- ISBN-13: 9781925113181
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2014
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