Survivor : life in the SAS / Mark Wales.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xiv, 350 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760982751Subject(s): Wales, Mark | Wales, Mark | Australia. Army. Special Air Service Regiment -- Biography | Australia. Australian Army. Special Air Service Regiment | Australia. Army. Special Air Service Regiment -- Biography | Autobiographies | Afghan War, 2001- -- Personal narrative, Australian | Afghan War, 2001- -- Personal narratives, Australian | Afghan War, 2001- -- Participation, Australian | Soldiers -- Australia -- Biography | Warfare & defence (Australia) | Biography & Memoir (Australia) | Military history (Australia)Genre/Form: Autobiographies | Autobiographies. DDC classification: 355.0092 Summary: Mark Wales thought his life would end in a cornfield in Afghanistan. Mark and his SAS troops emerged from that scorched battlefield twelve hours later, his mentor gunned down, his dream career now a nightmare. Over four deployments of intense warfighting, Mark watched the line between right and wrong become blurred. When he left the SAS he was adrift, crippled by guilt. On a mission to rebuild himself, Mark turned his life around. He fought his way into the gates of a US Ivy League business school and into the boardrooms of top-tier international corporations. He spent years navigating failure in a quest to find new meaning in life. With every setback Mark counterattacked, discovering the tactics and tools needed to become more resilient, and to find happiness, belonging and purpose. Told with gripping suspense, humour and touching warmth, Survivor is Mark's extraordinary life in and out of the SAS, a story of resilience and a testament to the power of transformation. -- Publisher's website.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 355 .0092 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AL42000230502B |
Includes index.
Mark Wales thought his life would end in a cornfield in Afghanistan. Mark and his SAS troops emerged from that scorched battlefield twelve hours later, his mentor gunned down, his dream career now a nightmare. Over four deployments of intense warfighting, Mark watched the line between right and wrong become blurred. When he left the SAS he was adrift, crippled by guilt. On a mission to rebuild himself, Mark turned his life around. He fought his way into the gates of a US Ivy League business school and into the boardrooms of top-tier international corporations. He spent years navigating failure in a quest to find new meaning in life. With every setback Mark counterattacked, discovering the tactics and tools needed to become more resilient, and to find happiness, belonging and purpose. Told with gripping suspense, humour and touching warmth, Survivor is Mark's extraordinary life in and out of the SAS, a story of resilience and a testament to the power of transformation. -- Publisher's website.
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