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Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with Britain’s Elite Bomb Disposal Unit

2011-02-03 Fiction
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Release : 2011-02-03
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Book Synopsis Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with Britain’s Elite Bomb Disposal Unit by : Sean Rayment

Download or read book Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with Britain’s Elite Bomb Disposal Unit written by Sean Rayment. This book was released on 2011-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Afghanistan is just like Iraq – hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search Advisor Bomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in the most dangerous region of the most lethal country on earth – Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Bomb Hunters

2011 Afghan War, 2001-
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Release : 2011
Genre : Afghan War, 2001-
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Book Synopsis Bomb Hunters by : Sean Rayment

Download or read book Bomb Hunters written by Sean Rayment. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IEDs are the main killer of British troops in Afghanistan and the ultimate psychological weapon. Rayment takes the reader on a journey into the heat and dust of Helmand Province as he meets these courageous soldiers who put their lives at risk to prevent other British troops falling victim to the IED. No punches will be pulled on what these men feel about the war, their place in it, the politicians and generals who send them there, and how they deal with the relentless pressure of the job itself in the heart of the world's most hostile combat environment.

Unwinnable

2017-09-07 History
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Release : 2017-09-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 404/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Unwinnable by : Theo Farrell

Download or read book Unwinnable written by Theo Farrell. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. As British and American troops withdraw, discover this definitive account that explains why. It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda. Instead, in the years that followed, Britain paid a devastating price for their presence in Helmand province. So why did Britain enter, and remain, in an ill-fated war? Why did it fail so dramatically, and was this expedition doomed from the beginning? Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports, government documents and senior individuals, Professor Theo Farrell provides an extraordinary work of scholarship. He explains the origins of the war, details the campaigns over the subsequent years, and examines the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict and learn the lessons of history that ultimately led to devastating costs and repercussions still relevant today. 'The best book so far on Britain's...war in Afghanistan' International Affairs 'Masterful, irrefutable... Farrell records all these military encounters with the irresistible pace of a novelist' Sunday Times

War Memories

2017-05-31 Political Science
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Release : 2017-05-31
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 513/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis War Memories by : Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger

Download or read book War Memories written by Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger. This book was released on 2017-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Memories explores the patchwork formed by collective memory, public remembrance, private recollection, and the ways in which they form a complex composition of observations, initiatives, and experiences. Offering an international perspective on war commemoration, contributors consider the process of assembling historical facts and subjective experiences to show how these points of view diverge according to various social, cultural, political, and historical perspectives. Encompassing the representations of wars in the English-speaking world over the last hundred years, this collection presents an extensive, yet integrated, reflection on various types of commemoration and interpretations of events. Essays respond to common questions regarding war memory: how and why do we remember war? What does commemoration tell us about the actors in wars? How does commemoration reflect contemporary society’s culture of war? War Memories disseminates current knowledge on the performance, interpretation, and rewriting of facts and events during and after wars, while focusing on how patriotic fervour, resistance, conscientious objection, injury, trauma, and propaganda contribute to the shaping of individual and collective memory. Contributors include Joan Beaumont (Australian National University, Canberra), Gilles Chamerois (University of Brest, France), Subarno Chattarji (University of Delhi, India), Nicole Cloarec (Rennes 1 University, France), Corinne David-Ives (European University of Brittany – Rennes 2, France), Jeffrey Demsky (San Bernardino Valley College, California), Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University), Georges Fournier (Jean Moulin University, France), Annie Gagiano (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa), David Haigron (Rennes 2 University, France), Judith Keene (University of Sydney, Australia), Melissa King (San Bernardino Valley College, California), Christine Knauer (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany), Liliane Louvel (University of Poitiers), Michelle P. Moore (Canadian Army Doctrine and Training Centre, Kingston, Ontario), John Mullen (University of Rouen, France), Lorie-Anne Duech-Rainville (Caen University, France), Elizabeth Rechniewski (Australian Research Council Discovery Project), Raphaël Ricaud (University ‘Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense’, France), Laura Robinson (Royal Military College of Canada), and Isabelle Roblin (Université du Littoral-Côte d’Opale, France).

The Afghan War

2014-10-30 History
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Release : 2014-10-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Afghan War by : Anthony Tucker-Jones

Download or read book The Afghan War written by Anthony Tucker-Jones. This book was released on 2014-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom, and this photographic history is a graphic introduction to it. The immediate aim was to eject the Taliban from power, and to capture or kill the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his supporters whom the Taliban were sheltering. The decade-long war that followed, first against the Taliban regime, then against Taliban insurgents, is one of the most controversial conflicts of recent times. It has also seen the deployment of thousands of coalition troops and a huge range of modern military equipment, and these are the main focus of Anthony Tucker-Jones's account. He covers the entire course of the conflict, from the initial air war, the battle for the White Mountains and Tora Bora, the defeat of the Taliban, the escape of bin Laden and the grim protracted security campaign that followed an asymmetrical war of guerrilla tactics and improvised explosive devices that is going on today.

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