Desperate Glory By Sam Kiley

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Sent to fight in Helm&, young men in their teens find themselves in the toughest & most relentless battles endured by British troop since the Korean War. Sam Kiley, a veteran of countless conflicts around the globe, joined 16 Air Assault Brigade for a six-month summer tour to bear witness to the vicious combat. The only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted access to the front line, Sam Kiley finds that the young men who are killing & dying are a life force. Theirs is a war full of humour, bloody-minded delight in hardship, compassion &, when they cradle & chat to their dead, tender grief. Unflinching & passionate, Desperate Glory is an utterly compelling account of the brutal realities of our war in Afghanistan.