AFTER THE BLAST: AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

Book ID/图书代码： 01899515B81338

English Summary/英文概要： In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles through the streets of Baghdad and into the desert beyond. But one morning his crew was targeted in a roadside bomb attack. Garth became Australia’s first serious casualty in the war.

After recovering from his injuries, Garth returned to Iraq in 2006 as second-in-command of the Australian Army’s security detachment in Baghdad. He found a city in the grip of a rising insurgency. His unit had to contend with missile attacks, suicide bombers and the death by misadventure of one of their own, Private Jake

Kovco. A very Australian story of heroism and healing.

Determined to prevent the kinds of bomb attacks that left him scarred, Garth volunteered once more in 2009 – to lead a weapons intelligence team in Afghanistan. He was helicoptered to blast zones in the aftermath of attacks, and worked to identify the insurgent bomb-makers responsible.

Revealing, moving, funny and full of drama, Garth Callender’s story is one of a kind.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一个具有澳洲特色的，关于英雄气概和治愈系故事。

2004年，一位初级骑兵军官加斯卡伦德被派遣到伊拉克。他很快就带领着装甲车队穿过巴格达的街道站稳了脚跟，深入至沙漠腹地。但一天早上，他的部队遭遇了路边炸弹袭击，加斯成为在这场战争中第一个严重伤亡的澳裔军官。

伤愈后，加斯于2006年回到伊拉克，担任驻巴格达的澳大利亚陆军安全分队的副指挥官。他发现一座城市正处于不断上升的叛乱中。他的部队不得不应对导弹袭击、自杀式炸弹袭击，以及二等兵杰克科夫科的不幸阵亡的现实中。

为了避免再度发生类似炸弹袭击给他和曾经属下造成的伤痕累累，加斯在2009年再次自愿前往阿富汗领导一个武器情报小组。在袭击发生后，他被直升机送往爆炸发生区域，根据线索找出制作炸弹的叛乱分子。感人至深，充满着有趣的故事和戏剧性，加斯卡伦德的故事是独一无二的。

加斯卡伦德(Garth Callender)在澳大利亚陆军服役了17年，在此期间他曾在伊拉克和阿富汗服役，于2013年退役。现为一家澳大利亚科技公司工作，该公司正在开发探测隐藏爆炸物的新方法。 (Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Garth Callender left the regular Australian Army in 2013 after a distinguished seventeen-year career, during which he served in Iraq and Afghanistan and rose to the rank of major. He now works for an Australian technology company that is developing new ways to detect concealed explosives.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：World audio rights to Audible.

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