Blood Sweat and Tears: An Irish Soldier’s Tale of Love and Loss
By Tom Clonan (Liberties Press) Irish troops have served 40,000 individual tours of duty over four decades in Lebanon. Forty-seven Irish troops died in Lebanon and thousands more have returned with physical and psychological injuries. But the Irish experience in Lebanon is not something we hear a lot about in the media. Tom Clonan, Security Analyst with the Irish Times tells the true story of the Irish at war through an account of his experiences as an Irish Army Officer serving in Lebanon between 1995 and 1996. His vivid account brings us from a rain-swept Dublin Airport on a dark ...
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