Dimensions
180 x 250 x 30mm
Between 2006 and 2009 journalist Nick Allen travelled to
Afghanistan to 'embed' himself with soldiers on the front
line in the war against the Taliban. He was posted with
military units from many countries, including Britain,
America, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark and
Estonia, and spent time with the Royal Gurhka Rifles, the
US Marine Corps, the 39th Combat Engineer Regiment and
the 506th Airborne of Band of Brothers fame. Embed is an
unrivalled first-hand account of military operations from
the battlefields of Helmand and Kandahar, to the so-
called 'backwaters' of the Afghan conflict. It explores
the daily existence of ordinary soldiers from around the
world as they face a cunning and fanatical enemy, and
their endurance of the drama, tragedy, boredom and farce
that characterises war. This eyewitness portrayal of
combat operations, reconstruction and daily soldiering
life faithfully reproduces the reality of life on the
frontline. It also surely helps to answer the question:
what is the West doing there?
