My autobiography; Paint - A Boy Solidier's Journey, is out now to buy from all major bookstores, amazon.co.uk, panicpressbooks.com and simonhutt.com.
ISBN: 978-0-9564831-0-2
Publication Date: 01/06/10
Availability: Out Now
Format: Black &White Paperback
Size: 234x156mm Perfect Bound
Pages: 366
Images: 31 Black & White photos, 4 maps
BIC Code: BTM/BTP
BISAC Code: BIO008000
Category: General
Description
Simon Hutt always wanted to join the Army. In 1989, aged 16, he enlisted into the Royal Artillery and after a years basic training was posted to Germany as a regular soldier. Within months the unit was deployed to the Middle east to take part in the first Gulf War...
...Simon was only 17.
The devastation and destruction left a big impression, and on his return he wondered why the Western World could mobilise its forces to fight for Kuwait, but not the likes of Bosnia or Rwanda.
Determined to make a difference, Simon goes Absent Without Leave and travels to the former Yugoslavia to join the Bosnian Croat Army. Fighting for people instead of oil...
...and finds the scars of war are not only physical.
From the Publisher
Simon Hutt's true account of his life as a young soldier fighting in the first Gulf War and then as a volunteer in Bosnia will grip the reader from start to finish.
Told without the usual bravado of most military autobiographies, it is an honest and graphic account of a young man struggling through the hopes and horrors of war and its aftermath; the battle with post traumatic stress disorder and a disability.
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