Aris Roussinos tells the real stories behind life in a rebel army. The hidden tr
uth about war is how much fun it is. That's because however they begin, whatever
their ostensible aims, wars are fought by young men. And these young men live i
n burned-out buildings and shelter from tropical storms under thorn trees. They
eat their meagre cold rations, and huddle for days under shellfire. They see lif
e differently to us. Their senses are sharper; they shudder every time they hear
a plane pass overhead: they know that it's not a videogame anymore. The bombs a
nd bullets are terrifyingly real, and the guys they're killing aren't just bit-p
art actors in a distant country's tragic story: they're friends. Part travelogue
from the world's most dangerous places, part eyewitness testimony to recent, bl
oody history, this is the true story of how one man embedded himself within rebe
l fighter groups, and lived to tell the tale.
