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“A Soldier’s Song by Ken Lukowiak tells the story of what it was like to fight and survive down in the Falklands with the British forces. Lukowiak is an elite soldier, serving with 2nd Para. He’s been trained and highly conditioned to kill, and they did. They were very, very effective in the Falklands: arguably the best-performing unit…What makes Lukowiak’s memoir so powerful is that it strips away the patriotic headlines and triumphalism that followed the war. He takes the reader onto the battlefield itself: the freezing rain, the sodden peat bogs, the exhaustion, fear and uncertainty of combat. His story is not simply about military success, but about the human experience of war and the lasting physical and psychological burden carried by those who fought it.” Read more...
Iain MacGregor, Military Historians & Veteran
