Dimensions
111 x 178 x 30mm
The bestselling account of special forces operations in Afghanistan now available in paperback.
'As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets, oblivious to the enemy small-arms fire that was cracking by their heads and shoulders. "Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze" they recited quietly . . . Each time . . . the lifeless body of an al-Qaeda terrorist would snap back through the desert air and drop onto the sandy courtyard.'
The war in Afghanistan was the one of the most secret conflicts in recent history; thousands of journalists covered it, yet, ironically, little is known about how it was waged or what really happened - until now.
This book plunges the reader into America's War on Terror, from the first top-secret meetings of the Task Force in Tampa on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, through to the liberation of Kabul sixty-two days later and the tragedies of Operation Anaconda - as seen through the eyes of the Green Berets on the ground.
This is the story of how only a few hundred men changed the course of history in Central Asia and destroyed a hundred-thousand-man terrorist army in less than ninety days. Fully revised and updated to include the 2003 war against Iraq and unique accounts of SAS involvement in both campaigns.
