The 3 Commando Brigades six month deployment in Helmand Province was among the finest pieces of soldiering I have come across
- General Sir Richard Dannett Chief of General Staff. In October 2006 the Royal Marine Commandos took up their six month tour of duty in war-torn Helmand Province southern Afghanistan
- the toughest & hottest war zone on earth. After the tactical retreat of their predecessors the Paras the Marines knew they would have to take a different approach to have any chance of success. So they took the war to the enemy. Roving & aggressive the Commandos forced the insurgent Taliban on to the back foot. As a result they were involved in daily fire fights of an intensity not encountered by British troops since North Korea.3 Commando Brigade" is a thrilling first-hand account of that dogged heroic pursuit of the Taliban by the ordinary Marines sailors & soldiers responsible. It is a story of valour fortitude supreme physical & mental fitness & unrivalled professionalism under the most testing of circumstances. The account explodes from the first page with Operation Glacier a graphic no-holds-barred account of a Commando attack on a key Taliban base south of Garmsir
- a battle that ends with the dramatic recovery of a Corporals body from alongside the fort by Apache helicopters. From this opening salvo the action never lets up offering a startlingly honest account of the war in Afghanistan as told by the junior officers corporals & marines on the ground."