Worse than a Defeat
James Meek: Shamed in Afghanistan, 18 December 2014
The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan
by Jack Fairweather.
Cape, 488 pp., £20, December 2014,978 0 224 09736 9 Show More
by Jack Fairweather.
Cape, 488 pp., £20, December 2014,
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War
by Frank Ledwidge.
Yale, 287 pp., £10.99, July 2014,978 0 300 20526 8 Show More
by Frank Ledwidge.
Yale, 287 pp., £10.99, July 2014,
British Generals in Blair’s Wars
edited by Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron and Hew Strachan.
Ashgate, 404 pp., £19.95, August 2013,978 1 4094 3736 9 Show More
edited by Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron and Hew Strachan.
Ashgate, 404 pp., £19.95, August 2013,
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict 1978-2012
by Mike Martin.
Hurst, 389 pp., £25, April 2014,978 1 84904 336 6 Show More
by Mike Martin.
Hurst, 389 pp., £25, April 2014,
“... soldiers: Nigel Coupe of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, and Jake Hartley, Anthony Frampton, Christopher Kershaw, Daniel Wade and Daniel Wilford of the Yorkshire Regiment. All except Coupe, a sergeant and father of two children, were aged between 19 and 21. They died in Afghanistan in March 2012, out on patrol in Helmand province, when their Warrior ... ”