Description
Product ID: | 9780552156080 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | A Million Bullets |
Subtitle: | The real story of the British Army in Afghanistan |
Authors: | Author: James Fergusson |
Page Count: | 496 |
Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Here, in their own words and for the first time, are the young veterans of Herrick 4. Controversial, fascinating and occasionally downright terrifying, A Million Bullets analyses the sorry slide into war in Helmand and asks this most troubling question: could Britain perhaps have avoided the violence altogether? In April 2006 a small British peace-keeping force was sent to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Within weeks they were cut off and besieged by some of the world''s toughest fighters: the infamous Taliban, who were determined to send the foreigners home again. Defence Secretary John Reid had hoped that Operation Herrick 4 could be accomplished without a shot being fired; instead, the Army was drawn into the fiercest fighting it had seen for fifty years. Millions of bullets and thousands of lives have been expended since then in an under-publicized but bitter conflict whose end is still not in sight. Some people consider it the fourth Anglo-Afghan War since Victorian times. How on earth did this happen? And what is it like for the troops on the front line of the ''War on Terror''? |
Imprint Name: | Corgi Books |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-04-24 |