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Deceased Men Risen, success of the renowned Orwell Reward for literature, is the epic history of your beleaguered British battle group fighting frantically to avoid the Taliban from seizing Afghanistan's Helmand province equally as the US Marines arrive to take over. Best-selling creator Toby Harnden explains how men from the coal mining valleys and slate quarry villages of Wales found themselves in the most extreme combat confronted by British troops for a generation. Underequipped and overstretched, the fighting with each other prowess of the Welsh Guards in the eradicating areas of Sangin and Nawa awed the US Marines. NATO commander Basic Stanley McChrystal, who was awaiting a reply to his urgent request to Chief executive Barack Obama for additional troops, hailed their "burn-in-your-gut interest". Harnden was on the floor with the Welsh Guards in Helmand in '09 2009. He gained access to a trove of hidden knowledge armed forces documents and conducted nearly 300 interviews in Afghanistan, Britain, Wales, and the United States to produce this amazing and profound account of men at conflict. Commanding the Welsh Guards was Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, a separate believer in the justness of the conflict who was dismayed by the armed forces and politics incompetence bordering it. In chilling depth, Harnden discloses how and just why Thorneloe - the first United kingdom battalion commander to expire in action since the 1982 Falklands Conflict - was killed by an IED during Operation Panther's Claw. By the time the fighting was over, almost no rank have been spared. The listener is transported from the searing high temperature of the poppy areas and the dirt substances of Helmand to the dreaded knock on the entranceway back home. Harnden weaves the encounters of the troops, their historical forbears, and the flawed NATO strategy into a masterly narrative. No other e book about modern issue succeeds on so many levels. This is essential for anyone who wants to understand the reality of the Afghan conflict for the US and its allies.

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