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'Gripping ... A terrific action narrative' Max Hastings 'Reads like
a Tom Clancy thriller, yet every word is true ... This is modern
warfare close-up and raw' Andrew Roberts Bestselling and Orwell
Prize-winning author Toby Harnden tells the gripping and incredible
story of the six-day battle that began the War in Afghanistan and
how it set the scene for twenty years of conflict. The West is in
shock. Al-Qaeda has struck the US on 9/11 and thousands are dead.
Within weeks, UK Special Forces enter the fray in Afghanistan
alongside the CIA's Team Alpha and US troops. Victory is swift, but
fragile. Hundreds of jihadists surrender and two operatives from
Team Alpha enter Qala-i Jangi - the 'Fort of War' - to interrogate
them. The prisoners revolt, one CIA man falls, and the other is
trapped inside the fort. Seven members of the SBS - elite British
Special Forces - volunteer for the rescue force and race into
danger and the unknown. The six-day battle that follows proves to
be one of the bloodiest of the Afghanistan war as the SBS and their
American comrades face an enemy determined to die in the mud
citadel. Superbly researched, First Casualty is based on
unprecedented access to the CIA, SBS, and US Special Forces. Orwell
Prize-winning author Toby Harnden recounts the gripping story of
that first battle in Afghanistan and how the haunting foretelling
it contained - unreliable allies, ethnic rivalries, suicide
attacks, and errant bombs - was ignored, fueling the twenty-year
conflict to come.
'Gripping ... A terrific action narrative' Max Hastings 'Reads like
a Tom Clancy thriller, yet every word is true ... This is modern
warfare close-up and raw' Andrew Roberts Bestselling and Orwell
Prize-winning author Toby Harnden tells the gripping and incredible
story of the six-day battle that began the War in Afghanistan and
how it set the scene for twenty years of conflict. The West is in
shock. Al-Qaeda has struck the US on 9/11 and thousands are dead.
Within weeks, UK Special Forces enter the fray in Afghanistan
alongside the CIA's Team Alpha and US troops. Victory is swift, but
fragile. Hundreds of jihadists surrender and two operatives from
Team Alpha enter Qala-i Jangi - the 'Fort of War' - to interrogate
them. The prisoners revolt, one CIA man falls, and the other is
trapped inside the fort. Seven members of the SBS - elite British
Special Forces - volunteer for the rescue force and race into
danger and the unknown. The six-day battle that follows proves to
be one of the bloodiest of the Afghanistan war as the SBS and their
American comrades face an enemy determined to die in the mud
citadel. Superbly researched, First Casualty is based on
unprecedented access to the CIA, SBS, and US Special Forces. Orwell
Prize-winning author Toby Harnden recounts the gripping story of
that first battle in Afghanistan and how the haunting foretelling
it contained - unreliable allies, ethnic rivalries, suicide
attacks, and errant bombs - was ignored, fueling the twenty-year
conflict to come.
'Gripping ... A terrific action narrative' Max Hastings 'Reads like
a Tom Clancy thriller, yet every word is true ... This is modern
warfare close-up and raw' Andrew Roberts Bestselling and Orwell
Prize-winning author Toby Harnden tells the gripping and incredible
story of the six-day battle that began the War in Afghanistan and
how it set the scene for twenty years of conflict. The West is in
shock. Al-Qaeda has struck the US on 9/11 and thousands are dead.
Within weeks, UK Special Forces enter the fray in Afghanistan
alongside the CIA's Team Alpha and US troops. Victory is swift, but
fragile. Hundreds of jihadists surrender and two operatives from
Team Alpha enter Qala-i Jangi - the 'Fort of War' - to interrogate
them. The prisoners revolt, one CIA man falls, and the other is
trapped inside the fort. Seven members of the SBS - elite British
Special Forces - volunteer for the rescue force and race into
danger and the unknown. The six-day battle that follows proves to
be one of the bloodiest of the Afghanistan war as the SBS and their
American comrades face an enemy determined to die in the mud
citadel. Superbly researched, First Casualty is based on
unprecedented access to the CIA, SBS, and US Special Forces. Orwell
Prize-winning author Toby Harnden recounts the gripping story of
that first battle in Afghanistan and how the haunting foretelling
it contained - unreliable allies, ethnic rivalries, suicide
attacks, and errant bombs - was ignored, fueling the twenty-year
conflict to come.
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the
men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in
Afghanistan in 2009. Underequipped and overstretched, they found
themselves in the most intense fighting the British had experienced
in a generation. They were led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel
Rupert Thorneloe, a passionate believer in the justness of the war
who was deeply dismayed by the way it was being resourced and
conducted. Thorneloe was killed by an IED during Operation
Panther's Claw, the biggest operation mounted by the British in
Helmand. Dead Men Risen draws on secret documents written by
Thorneloe, which raise questions from beyond the grave that will
unnerve politicians and generals alike. The Welsh Guards also lost
Major Sean Birchall, commanding officer of IX Company, and
Lieutenant Mark Evison, a platoon commander whose candid personal
diary was unnervingly prophetic. Not since the Second World War had
a single British battalion lost officers at the three key levels of
leadership. Harnden transports the reader into the heart of a
conflict in which a soldier has to be prepared to kill and die, to
ward off paralysing fear and watch comrades perish in agony. Given
unprecedented access to the Welsh Guards, Harnden conducted
hundreds of interviews in Afghanistan, England and Wales. He weaves
the experiences of the guardsmen and the loved ones they left
behind into a seamless and unsparing narrative that sits alongside
a piercing analysis of the political and military strategy. No
other book about modern warfare succeeds on so many levels.
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