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3 Para by: Patrick Bishop List Price: £7.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £4.39 You Save: £3.60 (45%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780007257805 ISBN: 0007257805 Label: HarperPerennial Manufacturer: HarperPerennial Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: June 02, 2008 Publisher: HarperPerennial Studio: HarperPerennial Sales Rank: 2294 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Good solid readA good solid read. Interesting and well written in my opinion. My only criticism is that it jumped around a bit and therefore I found it hard to follow on occassion. This perhaps reflects the chaos of the situation. Rating:  - 3 ParaThis book is not written by a soldier but an author who wasn't there and who didn't experience it first hand. It therefore seems to lack the observations or humour of books like "Sniper One". However, it still contains a lot of useful insight and facts about the day to day life of the UK forces in Afghanistan. The book identifies a variety of issues that our troops have had to contend with. Everything from running low on ammo to screwed up chains of command and all topped off with Afghan forces phoning up the Taliban and tipping them off. It is obvious that our boys have done an admirable job in very testing conditions. The big problem I have with this book is the way it explains the loss of soldiers from the Parachute ... Read More: Rating: - Sober and sensible, despite the coverPatrick Bishop has now written several accounts of specific units or services in wartime, including the excellent "Fighter Boys" and "Bomber Boys", both about WW2 British fliers. At first glance, this foray into contemporary conflict doesn't look promising; the paperback version is decorated with tawdry tabloid marketing blurb (and the statutory McNab/Ryan rave review) which makes it seem like another of the sensationalist glorifying accounts of recent conflicts that now seem to be cluttering the bookshelves of the nation. Fortunately, Bishop is a better writer than that, so I persisted and was rewarded with a fascinating account of the British Army in Afghanistan, which focuses on the detail of day to day fire-fights without ... Read More: Rating:  - Not first hand..I bought this book and like many others who had read 'Sniper One', 'Eight Lives Down' and other similar books, found this quite disapointing. I expected it to be a first hand account where you feel like you are there with the actual soldiers, but this is nothing like that at all. It is all a sort of mix up of whats going on in different places at different times, and is altogether quite confusing to be honest. It seems as though the author has got loads of information of what happened from people who were there and decided to make a book out of it, but quite frankly it would have been one hundred times better if it was written by one of the soldiers themselves. If you want a good military read then I advise buying the books mentioned ... Read More: Rating:  - A truly moving account instilling patriotismI was doubtful about purchasing this book as I have never really been into war books, but I am so glad I did. This book is written in an excellent manner giving a direct and truthful account of the bravery, courage, discipline and honour of our British professional troops. At one point reading this on the train commute into London I had to put the book down because I was welling up and any book that can do that to me is a worth read. I was saddened but not surprised to see on TV last night that Colnel Tootal has retired from his command, but to be honest not surprised when you read how difficult it was for him in 3 Para. I can't rate this book highly enough and I would just like to say this is one British citizen who fully supports our lads in Afganistan. |
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