Long way home : love, life, death, and everything in between /
Jarvis, Dan,
Long way home : love, life, death, and everything in between / Dan Jarvis. - Paperback edition. - xii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Includes index. Originally published: London : Little, Brown, 2020.
Before becoming an MP, Dan Jarvis was a soldier for fifteen years, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan among other places. Every time he left the family home for a conflict zone Dan knew he was risking his life: many of his contemporaries were badly injured or killed. But he never imagined that the one to die would be his wife Caroline, who he lost to cancer at a tragically young age, leaving him to bring up their two small children. In 'Long Way Home' the two stories run in parallel, Dan's service in the Parachute Regiment, for which he was subsequently awarded the MBE, becoming increasingly untenable as Caroline's health declined. It's a soldier's story and a father's story: an extraordinary tale of fortitude, love and doing the best you can in horribly difficult circumstances.
9781408710722 9781408713129
Soldiers--Great Britain.
Widowers--Great Britain.
Autobiography
autobiographies (literary genre)
Autobiographies
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
355.0092 / J38
Long way home : love, life, death, and everything in between / Dan Jarvis. - Paperback edition. - xii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Includes index. Originally published: London : Little, Brown, 2020.
Before becoming an MP, Dan Jarvis was a soldier for fifteen years, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan among other places. Every time he left the family home for a conflict zone Dan knew he was risking his life: many of his contemporaries were badly injured or killed. But he never imagined that the one to die would be his wife Caroline, who he lost to cancer at a tragically young age, leaving him to bring up their two small children. In 'Long Way Home' the two stories run in parallel, Dan's service in the Parachute Regiment, for which he was subsequently awarded the MBE, becoming increasingly untenable as Caroline's health declined. It's a soldier's story and a father's story: an extraordinary tale of fortitude, love and doing the best you can in horribly difficult circumstances.
9781408710722 9781408713129
Soldiers--Great Britain.
Widowers--Great Britain.
Autobiography
autobiographies (literary genre)
Autobiographies
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
355.0092 / J38