Only a Soldier Knows by Ray Lane

Only a Soldier Knows by Ray Lane

In this gripping memoir, Ray speaks about his incredible career as a soldier and what it takes to be the person who, instead of running away, walks towards a 1,000kg bomb.

Ray Lane is a former commanding officer of the Irish Defence Force Ordnance School. On his retirement in 2018, he had been a member of the Irish Defence Forces for 45 years. He has served overseas in many missions with the UN, EU and NATO in Lebanon, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Somalia. He served as an expert witness on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1993), the United Nations Factfinding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (2009) and the Callanan Review (2011). More recently, he has been working with UNOPS (The United Nations Office for Project Services) in Ukraine advising on demining land to allow agriculture to return. He also works for a start-up company in UCG, Aquila Bioscience, which, by utilising revolutionary decontamination technology, creates products that protect individuals against harmful pathogens and biotoxins. He lives in Naas, Co. Kildare.

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ISBN 13	9781804580561
ISBN 10	1804580562
Title	Only a Soldier Knows
Author	Ray Lane
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Gill
Year published	2024-09-20
Number of pages	256
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