Soldier for a Summer: One Man´s Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising
Sam Najjair
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Description for Soldier for a Summer: One Man´s Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white halftones, maps. BIC Classification: 1HBL; 3JMG; BTM; HBJH; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to join the uprising against the dictator Gaddafi.
Soldier for a Summer charts his journey - from his arrival into Libya to training in the Western Mountains for twelve weeks before advancing on Tripoli. On 20 August 2011, Sam and the now famous Tripoli Brigade - a unit of the National Liberation Army of Libya - were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Castleknock, Ireland
ISBN
9781444743838
SKU
9781444743838
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About Sam Najjair
Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born and grew up in the suburbs of Dublin. His father came to Ireland from Tripoli as a student in the 1970s, where he met and married Sam's mother Joanna Golden, daughter of Geoffrey Golden and Maire O'Donnell, two famous Abbey Theatre actors. From the age of nine, Sam lived with his family ... Read more
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