AS a merciless ISIS fighter shot dead two of his squad, Macer Gifford assumed his death was just seconds away.
But as a bullet ricocheted off his armour, the former Brit banker’s heart pounded as he hurled himself to the ground to take cover.
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It was one of just hundreds of times the volunteer fighter narrowly cheated death as he battled ISIS in Syria – and later Russia in Ukraine.
Rewind to 2014, and Macer had what many would deem an idyllic life.
Living in Battersea, central London, the banker-turned-fighter had a girlfriend and was working in the foreign exchange business.
As Mosil, the second largest city in Iraq, fell and thousands of Yazidi girls became trapped on Sinjar Mountain before being murdered or sold into sexual slavery, Macer made a life-changing decision.
Then just 27, he ditched both his job and his girlfriend to travel 3,000 miles to Syria – where a bloody war…
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