BITING THROUGH: FIVE YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN
Book ID/图书代码： 11980514B69541
English Summary/英文概要： John Ratcliffe is a quiet man, not the type of person who stands out in a crowd or draws attention to himself. But scratch the surface and you will find a person who has lived anything but a normal life.
Once belonging to a group of highly trained soldiers, Ratcliffe left the Australian military to pursue a career in Melbourne, practising alternative medicine. Years later, he was called to Afghanistan for a short assignment as a security contractor. He planned to be back in Australia after a few weeks. Five years later, he finally returned home.
Biting Through is the story of what happened in those five years, during one man’s descent into the behind-the-headlines reality of the war in Afghanistan. Thrust into a world of terrible danger, Ratcliffe encountered human traffickers, drugs lords, and corrupt officials while the international community looked on and went about its business.
He tried to find a way to make a difference to those whose lives he touched, all the while negotiating minefields of dishonesty, only to be
betrayed at the final hurdle and incarcerated in a medieval Afghan hellhole, awaiting the death penalty.
Biting Through is the true account of John Ratcliffe’s experiences, from the streets of Kabul to the fighting in the south of Afghanistan. It is a story about the people he met, the friends he made, and the lives he saved. A testimony to the brutal realities of one of the longest wars in modern history, which was replete with hideous waste and relentless corruption, it is a unique work, written by a man of remarkable courage and fortitude.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 约翰雷克利夫是一个很安静的人，不是在人群中很显眼，或提请注意自己的类型。但越过表面，你会发现他一直过着不一般的生活。
曾经属于一组训练有素的士兵，雷克利夫离开澳大利亚军队到墨尔本追求事业，实行替代医学。几年后，他被称为阿富汗分配作为安全承包人。他计划几周后回到澳大利亚。五年后，他终于回到了家。
咬穿是一个发生在这五年，在一个人陷入现实的新闻标题背后的阿富汗战争的故事。陷入可怕的危险的世界，拉特克利夫遇到人贩子，毒犯，和贪官污吏，而国际社会在一旁看着，只实行其业务。他试图找到一种方法，有所作为，改变他所遇到的人的生活，而越过不诚实的雷区，只在最后一关被出卖和被关押在一个中世纪的阿富汗地狱里，等待着死刑。
咬穿是约翰拉特克利夫真实的经厉，从喀布尔街头，到阿富汗南部的战斗。这是一个关于他遇到的人，他所交的朋友，以及他拯救的生命的故事。见证了近代历史上最长的战争，这是充满了可怕的浪费和腐败现象的的残酷现实，这是一部独一无二的作品，由非凡的勇气和毅力的人铸就。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰雷克利夫1962在墨尔本出世。80年代初他开始了他在中医学的学习，在1988毕业，在澳大利亚陆军突击团度过六年。接着他在中医药继续他的职业生涯，并成为维多利亚的第一完全合格的中医师，开办一个诊所，持续了11年。
雷克利夫离开墨尔本前往阿富汗在2005年，三周的私人保安任务变成了五年的地狱之旅。从阿富汗回国后2010年他试图回到正常的生活，但发现很难保持一个固定的工作。2013，他离开澳大利亚，再次把自己的经验和医学知识传播到第三世界国家。
John Ratcliffe was born in Melbourne in 1962. He began his studies in traditional Chinese medicine in the early 1980s, graduating in 1988, before spending six years in the Australian army’s commando regiment. He then left to continue his career in Chinese medicine, and went on to become one of Victoria’s first fully qualified Chinese medical practitioners and to run a clinic for 11 years.
Ratcliffe left Melbourne for Afghanistan in 2005 on a three-week private-security assignment that morphed into a five-year journey into hell. After returning from Afghanistan in 2010 he tried to return to a normal life, but found it difficult to hold down a regular job. In 2013, he left Australia once again to apply his operational experience and medical knowledge in third-world countries.
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