To Helmand and Back

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Ground Truth by Patrick Bishop Harper Pounds 18.99. Pounds 17.10 inc p& p (0845 155 0713) *****

Are we winning or losing the war in Afghanistan? On the one hand you get the endless reports on the latest British deaths. On the other, you get Ministry Of Defence propaganda bulletins about acts of supreme gallantry or narrow escapes. Somewhere between these extremes lies the messy reality. What soldiers call 'ground truth'.

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To Helmand and Back

Ground Truth, the title of Patrick Bishop's follow-up to his bestselling 3 Para, is the military term for 'how things are compared with how they are imagined to be'. In the current phase of the Afghan campaign,...

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