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Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain´s War in Afghanistan
Toby Harnden
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Description for Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain´s War in Afghanistan
Paperback. WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War. Num Pages: 400 pages, col. Illustrations, ports., map. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 1FCA; 3JMC; BTM; HBWS4; JWD; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 198 x 52. Weight in Grams: 658.
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Underequipped and overstretched, they found themselves in the most intense fighting the British had experienced in a generation. They were led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, a passionate believer in the justness of the war who was deeply dismayed by the way it was being resourced and conducted. Thorneloe was killed by an IED during Operation Panther's Claw, the biggest operation mounted by the British in Helmand. Dead Men Risen ... Read more
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Underequipped and overstretched, they found themselves in the most intense fighting the British had experienced in a generation. They were led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, a passionate believer in the justness of the war who was deeply dismayed by the way it was being resourced and conducted. Thorneloe was killed by an IED during Operation Panther's Claw, the biggest operation mounted by the British in Helmand. Dead Men Risen ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849164238
SKU
9781849164238
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About Toby Harnden
Toby Harnden is a veteran foreign correspondent who has reported from all over the world. He has covered the Welsh Guards in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan over the past fifteen years. His last book was the critically acclaimed bestseller Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (1999). Harnden currently lives in Washington DC, where he is the US Editor ... Read more
Reviews for Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain´s War in Afghanistan
'Dead Men Risen dilutes the saccarine perception of soldiering and replaces it with the gritty and gruesome reality of war' Patrick Hennessey, author of The Junior Officer's Book Club.
Patrick Hennessey
'Desperately moving ... Dead Men Risen is a serious work, far removed from the blood-and-thrills of the Bravo Two Zero school of military literary campaigning. Such books ... Read more
Patrick Hennessey
'Desperately moving ... Dead Men Risen is a serious work, far removed from the blood-and-thrills of the Bravo Two Zero school of military literary campaigning. Such books ... Read more