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The Changing of the Guard: The British Army since 9/11 by Simon Akam
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 )