Point Man - Softcover

Townsend, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571272436 ISBN 13: 9780571272433

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2013

Synopsis

Ambushes. Hidden bombs. Snipers.

The point man is the first to encounter these signs of danger.

He's the soldier who leads the patrol into battle.

Few survive for long.

Between 2007 and 2008, 20-year-old Kenny Meighan was the longest-serving point man in Helmand province. An exceptionally skilful and brave private who came from a family of soldiers, he was lucky to stay alive.

This is the true story of how Kenny took on the toughest test a soldier could face and lived to tell the tale.

About this title

Review:

An important book, PTSD sufferers are casualties just as much as anyone wounded in battle. --Andy McNab

More visceral than any fiction. What's so good about Townsend's account is the way that Kenny and his dad emerge as far more than symbols. They are flesh and blood. You know what it feels like to kill. --Peter Preston, Guardian

Magnificent. Made me cry and shiver with indignation. --Stephen Fry

One of the most moving and graphic war books I have ever read. Point Man lays bare the human tragedy of deadly combat as never before. --Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan

Mark Townsend tells a story politicians don t want to hear. Written with elegance and compassion, this book should make you angry. --Ken Loach

A brilliant, must read. --Rosie Boycott

Book Description:

Point Man, by Mark Townsend, is the incredible true story of the most dangerous job in the British army and the twenty-year-old who took it on and lived to tell the tale.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0571272436
• ISBN 13: 9780571272433
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304