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The Accidental Peacekeeper: Witness, War and the Weight of Being There
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By: Colin Sheridan
Publisher: Gill
Published: September 2026
Pages: 272
Categories: Non-Fiction, Autobiography, History
Language: English
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ISBN-13: 9781804583876

AN IRISH SOLDIER’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE FRONTLINES AND FAULT LINES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ‘I should never have been in any of these places. I should have been an English teacher in North Mayo.’ Although he served in the military for a quarter of a century, Colin Sheridan never felt completely comfortable in it. The army was an unnatural environment for a creative thinker who hated to be shouted at, hated doing the shouting and detested loud noises. In spite of all that, Colin’s chronic imposter syndrome made him a natural observer – of people, of times and places. The result is a tour de force of Colin’s time moving through the frontlines and fault lines of the twenty-first century – from Kosovo to Liberia, Afghanistan to the Middle East. Despite these heavy settings, Colin infuses his writing with passion, vulnerability, humour and a uniquely Irish take on moments of global significance. The Accidental Peacekeeper is a gripping, honest, often darkly funny account of friendship, loyalty, masculinity, fatherhood, and the human reality behind the headlines.

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