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Product Description: In 2009 Major Richard Streatfeild and his men fought for six months against the Taliban in Sangin, northern Helmand. They were engaged in over 800 fire-fights. They were the target of more than 200 improvised explosive devices. Ten men in his company were killed, 50 were wounded...read more

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9781783462278, titled "Honourable Warriors: Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan A Front-line Account of the British Army’s Battle for Helmand" | Pen & Sword, December 19, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In 2009 Major Richard Streatfeild and his men fought for six months against the Taliban in Sangin, northern Helmand.

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Product Description: Savagely funny, no-holds-barred reportage of a BBC journalist's four-month stay in Afghanistan May 2011, Afghanistan: Camp Bastion is under attack, the Sun's Defense Editor is about to catch the wrong helicopter, and a famous TV war reporter is missing half his kit and wants his shoes back...read more

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9781846883200 | Alma Books, October 1, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Savagely funny, no-holds-barred reportage of a BBC journalist's four-month stay in Afghanistan May 2011, Afghanistan: Camp Bastion is under attack, the Sun's Defense Editor is about to catch the wrong helicopter, and a famous TV war reporter is missing half his kit and wants his shoes back.

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Product Description: This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make sense of their role on these complex, multi-dimensional operations. It aims to intervene in the debates within critical feminist scholarship over whether soldiers can ever be agents of peace...read more

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9780230282261 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 28, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make sense of their role on these complex, multi-dimensional operations.

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Product Description: A glimpse into life on the front line in Afghanistan told through the diaries of the British Marines During their tour of Afghanistan in 2008, a number of soldiers kept personal diaries of their experiences, and now, for the first time, Osprey Publishing has collected them together to provide a gripping first-hand account of life in the front line in modern warfare...read more
By Simon Weston (foreword by)

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9781780969060, titled "Helmand: The Diaries of Front-Line Soldiers" | Osprey Pub Co, May 21, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A glimpse into life on the front line in Afghanistan told through the diaries of the British Marines During their tour of Afghanistan in 2008, a number of soldiers kept personal diaries of their experiences, and now, for the first time, Osprey Publishing has collected them together to provide a gripping first-hand account of life in the front line in modern warfare.

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Product Description: The remarkable true story of one man's fight to save the stray dogs of Afghanistan in the spirit of From Baghdad, With Love In the remote outpost of Now Zad, Afghanistan, Pen Farthing and his troop of young Royal Marines survive frequent engagements with the Taliban and forge links with the local community...read more

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9780312607746 | 1 edition (Thomas Dunne Books, August 3, 2010), cover price $24.99

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9781250001955 | Reprint edition (Griffin, April 24, 2012), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The remarkable true story of one man's fight to save the stray dogs of Afghanistan in the spirit of From Baghdad, With Love In the remote outpost of Now Zad, Afghanistan, Pen Farthing and his troop of young Royal Marines survive frequent engagements with the Taliban and forge links with the local community.

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By Andy McNab (foreword by)

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9781848846630 | Pen & Sword, April 1, 2012, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: Since 2006 the RAF has provided major air support in southern Afghanistan to help with reconstruction and to support the authority of the Afghan government. Its personnel and aircraft have been very heavily involved in everything from tactical reconnaissance and close air-support to in-theatre airlift and air-refueling...read more
By Stephen Dalton (foreword by) and Antony Loveless

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9781844256334 | Haynes Pubns, June 15, 2010, cover price $34.95 | also contains Blue Sky Warriors: Heroic Tales from the Front Line With Today's Raf

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9780857331199 | Haynes Pubns, November 15, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Since 2006 the RAF has provided major air support in southern Afghanistan to help with reconstruction and to support the authority of the Afghan government.

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Product Description: A searing, vivid, non-stop account of one man's heroism and courage under fire, by the only living recipient of the George Cross in Afghanistan Afghanistan, February 2008: in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces, and thousands of miles from home, Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, a Royal Marine, accidentally activates a grenade while on a covert patrol behind enemy lines...read more

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9780099543084 | Reprint edition (Random House Uk Ltd, June 1, 2011), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A searing, vivid, non-stop account of one man's heroism and courage under fire, by the only living recipient of the George Cross in Afghanistan Afghanistan, February 2008: in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces, and thousands of miles from home, Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, a Royal Marine, accidentally activates a grenade while on a covert patrol behind enemy lines.

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Product Description: "As you know 'blood clot' means blood cells coming together to form a strong clot that forms and sticks together to keep the wound sealed enabling it to repair. The Parachute Regiment's 'blood clot' acts the same, whether downtown scrapping or in some far away country fighting alongside each other...read more

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9781906033316 | Helion & Co Ltd, October 20, 2008, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: "As you know 'blood clot' means blood cells coming together to form a strong clot that forms and sticks together to keep the wound sealed enabling it to repair.

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9781906033811 | Rev exp edition (Helion & Co Ltd, February 19, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: "As you know 'blood clot' means blood cells coming together to form a strong clot that forms and sticks together to keep the wound sealed enabling it to repair.

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Product Description: What is it like to drive a Challenger tank over desert terrain for six days in a row? Or hover an Apache AH1 attack helicopter a hundred metres above enemy ground? How quickly can a Sapper clear a field of unexploded devices, or build a bridge - or blow one up? What is it like to fix bayonets, and engage in hand to hand combat, or train a 5...read more

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9781847443960 | Little Brown Uk, September 1, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A fascinating, frank, and revealing exploration of life on the frontline, as told to an acclaimed journalist and oral historian by today's soldiers What is it like to drive a Challenger tank over desert terrain for six days in a row, or to hover an Apache AH1 attack helicopter a hundred meters above enemy ground?

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9780751543995 | Reprint edition (Sphere, December 1, 2011), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: What is it like to drive a Challenger tank over desert terrain for six days in a row?

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Hardcover:

9781844256334, titled "Blue Sky Warriors: The RAF in Afghanistan in Their Own Words" | Haynes Pubns, June 15, 2010, cover price $34.95 | also contains Blue Sky Warriors: The RAF in Afghanistan in Their Own Words

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Hardcover:

9780802118943 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, May 6, 2009, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780802144782 | Grove Pr, May 11, 2010, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: This is the nerve-wracking true story of ace pilot Ed Macy MC and how, in the grueling Afghan war, he flew the first combat helicopter to fire the devastating Hellfire missile in battle- proving the effectiveness of the £4.2 billion Apache AH Mk1.

Hardcover:

9780007288199 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $32.05

Paperback:

9780007288212 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 3, 2009, cover price $20.10 | About this edition: This is the nerve-wracking true story of ace pilot Ed Macy MC and how, in the grueling Afghan war, he flew the first combat helicopter to fire the devastating Hellfire missile in battle- proving the effectiveness of the £4.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780007321292 | Abridged edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 3, 2009), cover price $22.65

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Product Description: Many political diatribes have been written about the Gulf War and the Iraq Conflict. This work provides a narrative of a war in which lies and inefficiency, badly laid plans and good intentions combine forces to disastrous effect.

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9781906510954 | Gardners Books, November 17, 2008, cover price $32.90 | About this edition: Many political diatribes have been written about the Gulf War and the Iraq Conflict.

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