Willie Apiata VC: The Reluctant Hero
by Paul Little | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780670073207 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780670073207 Global Overview for this book
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Lance Corporal Willie Apiata, a NZ Special Air Service trooper, was trapped at the front of a major fire-fight with suspected Taliban insurgents on a dark and desolate Afghan hilltop. One of his mates was bleeding to death and they were pinned down under intense enemy fire.
For Apiata there was no choice.
He fell back on the values instilled in him by his mother, the skills learnt during a tough pig-hunting life in the bush on the east coast of New Zealand, and the knowledge won from years of training with the NZSAS.
With the lives and safety of his mates his ony priority, Apiata performed an act of courage that has now become part of NZ history - an act that saw him become the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for NZ and just the 14th holder of the Commonwealth's highest honour for bravery since the end of WW2.
This is the story of Willie Apiata, VC, an ordinary kiwi bloke, a very reluctant hero, just doing his job.
For Apiata there was no choice.
He fell back on the values instilled in him by his mother, the skills learnt during a tough pig-hunting life in the bush on the east coast of New Zealand, and the knowledge won from years of training with the NZSAS.
With the lives and safety of his mates his ony priority, Apiata performed an act of courage that has now become part of NZ history - an act that saw him become the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for NZ and just the 14th holder of the Commonwealth's highest honour for bravery since the end of WW2.
This is the story of Willie Apiata, VC, an ordinary kiwi bloke, a very reluctant hero, just doing his job.
