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 9Show More 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 8Show More 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 9Show More 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 6Show More Show More“... to six British 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 ...”