- Published: 17 January 2013
- ISBN: 9781780577197
- Imprint: Mainstream Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 448
Among You
The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken by War
- Published: 17 January 2013
- ISBN: 9781780577197
- Imprint: Mainstream Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 448
Jake Wood writes unflinchingly about his life, whether on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the trading desks of Canary Wharf or the frenzied, hallucinatory landscape of sexual passion . . . A more pertinent story of our time it is hard to imagine
John Irvin, director of Hamburger Hill
As a military historian, I have read thousands of first-hand accounts of war, in all its gore and glory, brutality and suffering. But there were tears in my eyes as I followed Wood’s story of his descent into the bleakness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Tony Rennell, Daily Mail
Jake Wood tells his story with an expert eye for detail . . . intensely gripping and emotional
The Scotsman
The most haunting and moving account of how battle scars your mind
Daily Mail
Lively . . . thought-provoking . . . provocative
Defenders
Gripping . . . an unforgettable, unflinching account of the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Brutally honest and beautifully written
Rear Party website
Jake Wood is . . . a burning man who shapes sentences with a poet's heart and a fighter's rage . . . This one soldier's story is indeed extraordinary and a reminder that if you can write like Jake Wood, your life - whether lived in your head or in the world at large - will be far from ordinary
The National