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Pride and fall: the British army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
by Sergio Miller
Osprey, £30
SERGIO MILLER served in defence intelligence in the Ministry of Defence throughout the British army’s campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. This is his outstanding study of a war that cost the lives of over 450 British servicemen and women, and over £37 billion in national treasure.
Throughout, Miller pays tribute to the courage and determination of the soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors who served in Afghanistan.
It was Britain’s second-longest war in the last 100 years (the conflict in Northern Ireland was the longest), and Miller claims that it was also Nato’s first real war — wasn’t Nato’s illegal assault on Yugoslavia in 1991 a real war?
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