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Built by Fire: A Life of Service, Sacrifice, and Redemption
Paperback
Series: Built by Fire
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Built by Fire is the story of a life forged in the crucible of service-and what happens after the fire. From military operations and intelligence work to search and rescue missions, humanitarian deployments, and high-risk environments around the world, David Burnell lived a life defined by action, responsibility, and purpose. In places where seconds mattered and lives were on the line, strength, discipline, and training were everything.
But the fire that forges a man does more than strengthen him. Over time, it also reveals the cracks.
This book goes beyond the missions and into what follows-the quiet weight carried long after the moment has passed, the unseen cost of sacrifice, and the breaking that comes when strength alone is no longer enough. When identity begins to unravel and the tools that once worked no longer hold, the question becomes unavoidable: what happens when the fire doesn't just shape you-but consumes you?
Built by Fire is not just a story of service. It is a story of reckoning.
Through deeply personal experiences, David Burnell shares an unfiltered account of resilience, loss, leadership, and the emotional and spiritual toll of a life spent standing between chaos and the innocent. But this is not where the story ends. In the aftermath of breaking comes something unexpected-rebuilding. Not through force of will, but through surrender. Not through enduring alone, but through faith.
Grounded in a belief in God the Father and the redeeming power of Jesus Christ, this book becomes a story of transformation-of discovering that true strength is not found in holding everything together, but in being restored through Him.
For those who have walked through their own fire-whether in service, in loss, or in life-this book offers something real. A reminder that you can be forged, you can be broken, and by faith, you can rise again with purpose.
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