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Female medic writes of battle in Helmand

Source: Shanghai Daily | December 28, 2014, Sunday |

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CHANTELLE Taylor is a former combat medic who fought in one of Britain’s bloodiest battles in Afghanistan and wrote about her experience as a rare woman on the front line.

Written in a neutral tone, “Battleworn” reads like an ordinary soldier’s diary and documents hardship and bravery at a small outpost in Helmand province, where two-thirds of the company was wounded in battle.

Publishers told Taylor no one would want to read a war story written by a woman and asked her to sex it up with romance.

Outraged, she self-published “Battleworn”, which has been flooded with praise on Amazon and highly ranked on sales charts.

“Every inch a woman and every inch a warrior. ... A powerful story written with a humility that captures the sometimes impalpable humor of soldiers at war, ‘Battleworn’ provides a testament to combat medics all over the world,” according to an Amazon review.

Taylor, 38, now works as a security contractor in Iraq.

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