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In December 2007, Stephen Grey, a Sunday Times reporter, was under fire in Afghanistan as British and US forces struggled to liberate the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala. Taking shelter behind an American armoured Humvee, Grey turned his head to witness scenes of carnage. A car and a truck were riddled with gunfire. Their occupants, including several children, had died. Taliban positions were pounded by bullets and bombs dropped on their compounds. A day later, as the operation continued, a mine exploded just yards from Grey, killing a British soldier.
Who, he wondered in the days that followed, was responsible for the bloodshed? And what purpose did it serve? A compelling story of one military venture that lasted several days, Operation Snakebite draws on Grey's exclusive interviews with everyone from private soldiers to NATO commanders. The result is a thrilling and at times horrifying story of a war which has gone largely unnoticed back home.
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'An uncommonly vivid portrait of battle, matched by sharp investigation of purposes, intrigues and cock-ups.'
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'An uncommonly vivid portrait of battle, matched by sharp investigation of intrigues and cock-ups' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
Southern Afghanistan: Reporter Stephen Grey is embedded with B Company, 2 Yorks, during Operation Snakebite. The mission: to take the stronghold of Musa Qala, deep in hostile Taliban territory.
Dropped into the thick of the fighting, Grey provides a bombs-and-bullets glimpse of combat chaos as British, American and Afghan forces struggle to secure a town crucial to the drug trade. Amidst the flames and flying bullets, soldiers fought to simply stay alive, let alone take a dusty desert citadel.
Operation Snakebite tells the astonishing story of a bloody battle and the men who fought to win - no matter the cost to themselves.
'Superb, fast-paced. Captures the grit and the gore, the exhaustion and emotion, the killing and the dying' Guardian
'A fascinating insight . . . a catalogue of doubt, criticism and anger' Financial Times
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0670918342
- ISBN 13 9780670918348
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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