A Million Bullets - Brossura

Fergusson, J

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0593059034 ISBN 13: 9780593059036

Casa editrice: Bantam Press, 2008

Riassunto

In May 2006 a small British Army force was sent to the Helmand province of Afghanistan. They were to keep the peace and perhaps help to build some roads. The defence minister said the mission could be carried out without a shot being fired . But there was no peace to keep and the province quickly turned into a battle zone. The fiercest fighting was in the small, dusty town of Sangin, where the soldiers of 3 Para, a regiment of the 16th Air Assault Brigade, rapidly found themselves besieged by a determined and well-armed enemy. By July they were isolated and surrounded. They were running out of food and were down to boiling river water. In temperatures often approaching 45C, they came under attack three to five times a day, every day for over seven weeks. At times they were assisted on the barricades by non-combatant regiments who were trapped alongside them- drivers and mechanics of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers who had never fired a mortar or a machine-gun in their lives before. Over a million bullets, 700 dead Afghans and 6 VC recommendations later, James Fergusson brings us the gripping story of those 52 days. Based on extensive interviews with British sold

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In May 2006 a small British Army force was sent to Helmand province in Afghanistan. They were to keep the peace and perhaps help build some roads. The Defence Minister at the time said that the mission could be carried out 'without a shot being fired'. But as it turned out, there was no peace to keep and the troops were soon engaged in a bitter, bloody war with no end in sight.

Several million bullets, 700 dead Afghans and six VC recommendations later, James Fergusson takes us to the heart of the battle zone. He analyses the roles of all the various British regiments that took part (the Paras, the Gurkhas and the Royal Fusiliers), investigates their often fraught relations with the Afghan forces who fight alongside them, and even gains an audience with their common enemy, the Taliban.

Controversial, fascinating and occasionally downright terrifying, A Million Bullets tells for the first time the real stories of the soldiers at the sharp end of the so-called 'war on terror'.

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• Editore: Bantam Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0593059034
• ISBN 13: 9780593059036
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368