Dimensions
161 x 241 x 31mm
This is: the Maysan Province in Iraq - a place where 'Bravo Two Zero' meets 'Trainspotting'.
They are: young British soldiers recruited from the street corners of Britain's toughest cities and plunged into the most prolonged battles involving UK forces for half a century.
Their home: a perilously isolated outpost surrounded by warlords who want them dead.
Their mission: to train 900 members of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps - a corrupt rabble of insurgents who have been known to turn their guns on their instructors.
These sex-crazed, hyped-up boy soldiers are shot at, shoot each other, overdose on Viagra, parade naked, steal weapons and at one point set fire to their camp. After one massive firefight, they have to carry the corpses of the Iraqis they have slain from the battlefield - a task which has a horrendous mental impact.
Will they make it to the end of tour 'Rest and Recreation' facility where female medics will trade blow jobs for phone cards? This is their vision of paradise in a place they call 'Hell with flies'
'Condor Blues' is a visceral, uncensored account of soldiering in the world's most hostile territory - essential reading for anyone who wnats the real story behind the Ministry of Defence's propaganda on Iraq.
