A Rendezvous with the Enemy: My Brother's Life & Death with the Coldstream Guards in Northern Ireland

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Rendezvous With The Enemy: My Brother's Life and Death with the Coldstream Guards in Northern Ireland

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This cannot have been an easy book to write, yet it was not a hard book to read. There is no cloying sentimentality, no overblown emotions, just cold and hard facts which are leavened by the very real and special love of one brother for another ... If the reader has never experienced the strange and somewhat dystopian world of that campaign, the ninety percent of boredom and frustration followed by the ten percent of sheer terror and chaos that punctuated the tours, or has little experience of the beauracratic nightmare that trying to operate in that environment, then read this book and sample some of it ... This is a book that deserves a place on the shelf of every soldier, a book that puts into words some of what most of us feel at times. A damn good book. * British Army Rumour Service (ARRSE) website *

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Darren Ware was born in Enfield, North London in 1971, and was educated at St Georges Roman Catholic Primary School and St Ignatius College. He left home at the age of 16 and joined the army where he served with the 2nd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets for ten years, including almost three years in Northern Ireland where he was awarded a Mention in Despatches for distinguished service, having disrupted a terrorist attack in Strabane in the West Tyrone border region. Darren also served on operations in Cyprus and Bosnia. He conducted various training exercises worldwide and was an instructor of Infantry weapons and tactics, including a Gunnery Instructor and Nuclear Biological and Chemical Warfare for seven and a half years and also trained recruits for two and a half years in 1993. He left the army in 1997 as a Corporal, after a successful career and joined the police service and now serves in the Armed Response Unit. He married in 1992 and now lives with his wife Melanie and three children in the North West of England.