In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan. Company Commander is his story a riveting first-person account of incredible bravery telling what it is like to have 200 Paras depending on you constantly to make decisions which can & do cost lives to see men under your command killed & injured & being under the most intense pressure imaginable every minute of every day for six long months. Company Commander is a true leader's story
- a unique & vivid mix of front-line battles & strategic decision making & an intensely personal & inspiring account of a tour in the most perilous theatre of war on the planet.