Barefoot Soldier: A Story of Extreme Valour

by Johnson Beharry, Nick Cook, Nick Cook

Book Overview

Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meager meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and laborer. In 1999 he scraped together the airfare for England and joined the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. He served six months in Kosovo, three months in Northern Ireland, and then went to Iraq. In May of 2004, Beharry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316733210
• ISBN13: 9780316733212
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Sphere
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.2"