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Follow on Google News | "Elegy for a Broken Soldier: A UN Mission that Changed a Young Soldier's Life Forever"Overcoming PTSD: New Memoir Tells How to Fix a 'Broken Soldier'
By: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, LLC On a UN peacekeeping mission to Cyprus in 1965, trauma changed the young soldier's life forever, marking the beginning of his PTSD. "Nothing in my army training had prepared me for what happened," he says. Fifteen years later, in Lebanon in 1980, his life was threatened, and the incident effectively ended his military career. Neither event originated on the battlefield, but from within the Irish Army. Despite severe depression and suicidal thoughts, Chris continued his education and returned to the service to become a commissioned officer. He left the army in 1986 with a glowing service record, but was plagued with nightmares. A long legal wrangle and numerous psychiatric and psychological assessments have led to even greater health problems, but Chris has survived it all. "Elegy for a Broken Soldier" was originated written to release the pain of the memories that plagued the author's life. The trauma he faced was on two fronts – battling internally with PTSD – and externally with the military arm of the State that refused to recognise PTSD as a medical condition. An ardent music lover, Chris founded the Wagner Society of Ireland in 2002, and still travels to Vienna and other cities to follow his beloved Wagner operas. This former military man now marches to the beat of a different drummer. About the Author: Chris McQuaid is a retired Irish Army officer who served six tours of duty with Irish UN peacekeeping missions between 1963 and 1980 in the Congo, Cyprus, and South Lebanon. He holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and a degree in psychology from University College, Dublin. "This insightful book makes for a thought-provoking memoir, as well as essential reading for our times and for Irish society. We cannot commend it highly enough," says Robert Fletcher, CEO of Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency. ELEGY FOR A BROKEN SOLDIER: A UN MISSION THAT CHANGED A YOUNG SOLDIER'S LIFE FOREVER (ISBN: 978-1-949483- www.sbprabooks.com/ WHOLESALERS: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, LLC www.SBPRA.net (http://www.strategicbookclub.com/) *About our book publishing, marketing, and distribution team … We have provided services to over 10,000 authors around the world in the last eight years. We have hybrid-published over 6,500 authors, (about 500+ in a "traditional style" contract and the remainder in a self-publishing style), and their books are for sale in all the normal Ingram distribution channels, and Amazon and B&N (US, UK, Australia, Europe), plus China, India, Malaysia and almost every country in the world. We have attended and exhibited at over 30 of the largest book fairs in the world including London, New York, Beijing, Frankfurt, Guadalajara, New Delhi, Taiwan, and more. We have been instrumental in the adoption of POD in mainland China and Korea. For our author-clients we have produced over 1,000 press releases, video book trailers and other marketing materials for authors around the world. We have created over 7,500 author websites with extended capabilities, we have over 1,200 multi-format eBooks available on Kindle, Apple, Kobo, and other eBook platforms around the world. We look forward to assisting you to the best of our ability. https://www.facebook.com/ http://pinterest.com/ https://twitter.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/ End
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