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,
“... and a desperate battle over Sangin in 2013 … attracted little attention’. In 2012, when Frank Ledwidge was researching his book, which tallies the personal and financial cost of Britain’s Helmand campaign, he approached all six ministers who had held the defence portfolio since the start of the operation to ask what they thought its legacy ... ”
