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  | Sniper One: The Blistering True Story Of A British Battle Group Under Siege£3.99 Free DeliveryRRP: £6.99 | You save: £3.00 (42%) In stock | Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
It was April 7th 2004: a year to the day since the city had fallen. Saddam had been deposed. The Marines and the Para's were long gone and Southern Iraq rarely made it into the news. When Sgt Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Batallion, The Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment flew in, they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives. Within hours of arriving in Iraq a grenade bounced off one of the battalion's landrovers, rolled underneath and detonated. The ambush marked the beginning of a full-scale firefight during which Mill's killed a man with a round that removed his assailant's head. It was going to be a long tour. Like some post-apocalyptic Mad Max nightmare, the place had gone to hell in a handcart. Temperatures on the ground often topped 50c, sewage systems that had long since packed up, the stench of cooking waste and piles of festering rubbish that grew wherever you looked.Throat-burning winds, blast bombs and well-trained, well-organised militias armed with AKs and RPGs and a limitless supply of mortar rounds were the icing on the cake. If any of Mills' 18 man sniper platoon had thought that the people of Al Amarah were going to welcome them with open arms, they were forced to rapidly reconsider. For the next six months, isolated, besieged and under constant fire the battalion refused to give an inch. Cimic House, their HQ, may have been shit, but it was home. And its defence, the most intense the British army fought in 50 years, was a modern day Rorke's Drift. "Sniper One" is a breathtaking chronical of endurance, camaraderie, dark humour and courage in the face of relentless, lethal assault.
Penguin Books Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM) | |
2008 | |
9780141029016 | |
PAPERBACK - 560 Pages |
Average rating (55 reviews)
Fantastic
mason1984 | 08/10/2008 | See all mason1984's reviews (1) »
I bought this book when i went on holiday back in june and couldnt put it down, has a blistering pace and makes you feel like your almost there. Darkly funny in places and harrowing in others. Cant recommend it enough!
AWE-INSPIRING, BRILLIANT!
MovieAddict | 07/10/2008 | See all MovieAddict's reviews (571) »
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Incredible
pythonb | 01/10/2008 | See all pythonb's reviews (2) »
Allows you to get a tiny idea of what our troops have to put up with, read this book and my respect for these guys has increased no end. Such an in depth book that i could not drop. This book should not be missed out on.
