Books
by Simon Akam
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The Changing of the Guard: The British Army since 9/11 |
It was said that the Ministry of Defence tried to prevent this book's publication, exposing as it does the debacles that were the British campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-publication hype however is not justified. Based on many hundreds of interviews within the military at all levels and politics, what transpires is perhaps no more that a series of anecdotes and stories with very little overall analysis and a rather clumsily chronology. Altogether somewhat underwhelming.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 100 Spring 2021) |
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