In April 2006 a small British peace-keeping force was sent to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Within weeks they were cut off and besieged by some of the world's toughest fighters, the infamous Taliban, who had one goal: to destroy the invaders. It was the beginning of an engagement which has drawn the Army into the fiercest fighting it has seen for fifty years.
This is the real heart of the modern battle zone: a dark, violent, unforgiving place where young men and women are pushed to their limits. Millions of bullets and thousands of lives later, the British Army is still fighting another apparently unwinnable war in Afghanistan. Here, in the words of the participants - veterans, civilians and Taliban - is the story where it all began...
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A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan
In April 2006 a small British peace-keeping force was sent to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Within weeks they were cut off and besieged by some of the world's toughest fighters, the infamous Taliban, who had one goal: to destroy the invaders. It was the beginning of an engagement which has drawn the Army into the fiercest fighting it has seen for fifty years.
This is the real heart of the modern battle zone: a dark, violent, unforgiving place where young men and women are pushed to their limits. Millions of bullets and thousands of lives later, the British Army is still fighting another apparently unwinnable war in Afghanistan. Here, in the words of the participants - veterans, civilians and Taliban - is the story where it all began...