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'A marvellous read'
(Sunday Tribune )'A joy to armchair warriors and travellers.'
(Irish Times )'A remarkable story of life and death in the world’s most dangerous war zones'
(Irish Independent )'The book is at once a taut, fascinating insight into one man's quest to be a noble soldier and a shocking expose of how difficult that is to achieve.'
(Irish Mail on Sunday )Product Description
Pádraig O’Keeffe joined the elite and secretive French Foreign Legion at the age of twenty, seeking a challenge that would absorb his interests and intensity. He served with the Legion in Cambodia and Bosnia, then returned to civilian life, but military habits would not allow him to settle.
His need for intense excitement and extreme danger drove him back to the lifestyle he knew and loved, and using his Legion training, he became a ‘hidden soldier’ by opting for security missions in Iraq and Haiti.
In Iraq he was the sole survivor of an ambush in no man’s land between Abu Ghraib and Fallujah, the most dangerous place on earth.
An intense, exciting and vivid account of extraordinary and sometimes horrific events, Hidden Soldier lifts the veil on the dark and shadowy world of security contractors and what the situation is really like in Iraq as well as other trouble spots.
This bestseller also includes photographs taken by Padraig O’Keeffe while he was a Legionnaire and when he was in Iraq.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Always a bit of a wild child Padraig o keefe left his native Cork at the age of twenty one to fulfill his dream of becoming a soldier.His destination the almost mythical French Foreign Legion,this bold move set him on an extremely dangerous life path.Padraig tells it like it is from Bosnia to Cambodia to a near fatal ambush in Iraq the reader will not be spared the gory details.We see what life is like behind the closed doors of the Legion and the death row like existence of a private security operative in Fallujah.This sometimes graphic always gripping book is a must read but beware the faint hearted!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very interesting book. In fact this is rather a collection of stories and things that happened to the author. Amazingly - all he does is unfinished., but put it all together and it makes sense and first of all brings you a great book.
Recommended - good for anyone. I was unable to put it down.
Recommended - good for anyone. I was unable to put it down.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastically honest book from a very level headed guy. Im in the Military myself and this book is a must for ant military enthusiasts and those just interested in a good honest read. If your looking for a detailed account of the legions training you may be a little disappointed . However if your looking to find an excellent account of a soldiers life, attitude, and mental change this is the book for you. In general a great read!
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Interesting read
Im from dublin and i joined the Legion in 2001, so a few years after paddy, but it was interesting for me to read the book as things that he was describing about the legion,the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by shane lynch
foreign legion biography
Having had some experience with the legion,i was eager to read this book,as usual the ones that aren't bigged up are the best.Did not want to put it down,excellent. Read more
Published 19 months ago by wolverine
hidden soldier
As I like reading about the French Foreign Legion,I found this book brought you up to the modern day legionnair. It is easy to read and very well written.
Published on 28 Mar 2010 by timberwood
A fascinating book - real page-turner
This book is at times funny, sad, shocking - but always fascinating. Written with real wit and intelligence, it's sometimes easy to forget that Paddy is writing about real life;... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2009 by V. Rumsey
An interesting read
This is not one but two books. Part of it deals with the Foreign Legion and what it was like being there in the early 90's, while the remainder deals with the author's experiences... Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2009 by Phoebus Athanasiou
great book
excellent read, think that he is holding back when telling about his first time in Bosnia because there was plenty of fun and (illegal) action. Read more
Published on 1 May 2009 by M. Groot
Not at all as good as i'd hoped.
First of all this book reads well, which I suspect may be attributable mostly to the journalist in the pairing, however, that's pretty much all I have to say in the positive. Read more
Published on 24 April 2009 by Edward Simpson
Legion.
A brilliant read, Padraig manages to capture you and take you with him on his amazing journey, well written, well worth buying.
Published on 19 Mar 2009 by B. Spence
Gripping Read- a must see.
This is a book of a man who has fiollowed his gut instincts - from being told that he wouldnt see inside of an army kitchen in the Irish army. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2009 by N. Maloney
Hidden Soldier
It was great to read an outstanding book, that you can put down. Very hard to find a book like that, these days.
Published on 19 Mar 2008 by Mr. E. J. Rooney
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