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Liz McConaghy
Highs and Lows of Life on the Battlefield
Liz McConaghy was the longest serving female crewman on the Royal Air Force Chinook Fleet spanning a 17 year career flying on the aircraft.
This is her auto biography beginning with her journey from a small town in Co. Down Northern Ireland to RAF Cranwell and her exciting career thereafter on Chinook Helicopters.
She was the youngest aircrew to deploy to Iraq aged just 21 and also the only female crewman on the Chinook wing for 4 years, so her story is completely unique.
Her career saw her amass 2 deployments to Iraq and 10 deployments to Helmand Afghanistan in support of Operation Herrick and her story offers an insightful and personal perspective on war.
The book is an honest and humorous account of her ‘best of times and worst of times’ and how her experiences flying on the Chinook have changed and moulded her into the woman she has become.
From dodging bullets to saving soldiers and witnessing the brutality and loss of war she found herself bringing the battlefield home, despite her fighting days being over.
These memories eventually caught up with her years later in spectacular fashion, leading to her trying to take her own life to quieten her mind and find peace.
She survived and her story concludes offering hope to those who have also found themselves in the darkest of places, if you look hard enough you can find the tools within you to begin to rebuild your pathway to a new life.
Chinook Crew ‘Chick’ by Liz McConaghy | Waterstones
