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Black Ice by Corie Mapp & Christopher Joll

Black Ice by Corie Mapp & Christopher Joll

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Black Ice: The memoir of a soldier, double amputee and world champion

By Corie Mapp & Christopher Joll

Preface by Les Ferdinand

Foreword by the Rt Hon Sir Hugh Robertson

A Personal View by Barney Campbell

On 31st January 2010, Trooper Corie Mapp of The Life Guards was driving his armoured vehicle on combat operations in Afghanistan when it ran over an IED. The explosion that followed caused him massive injuries. But this was not the end of his active life but rather the beginning.

The next thing Corie remembers was waking in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Selly Oak, Birmingham, not realising that he was a double amputee. Two months later, and having made an almost miraculous against-the-odds recovery, Corie was back with his regiment in Windsor, and continued to serve until 2013.

Sport was an important part of Corie’s life before the explosion and a vital one after. In rehabilitation, he rediscovered his sporting skills, and competed successful in disabled cricket at a national level, and was a member of Team GB for sitting volley ball and athletics at the Warrior and the Invictus Games. However, when he was offered the chance to bobsleigh, his horizons widened considerably.

After just one year of training, in 2014 Corie won gold in the inaugural Para Bobsleigh World Cup competition in St Moritz, was second overall in the World Cup 2014/15 season and became the overall World Cup champion in 2018. In the 2021-22 season, he will continue to train and compete at the highest levels in North America and Europe.

On the international bobsleigh circuit he is affectionately known ‘Black Ice’.

This book is Corie Mapp’s remarkable story of triumph over adversity.

Hear Corie speak in our General Talk podcast here.

Hardback

Size: 246 x 189 mm

Pages: 192 + 16 pages of photographs

Published: 14 October 2021

 100% of the profits go to the Army Benevolent Fund.

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