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      3 PARA

      Patrick Bishop

      ‘The following account is based on interviews with the soldiers of the 3 PARA Battle Group. Inquests have not yet been held into many of the deaths reported in these pages. The author has made his best endeavour to report events accurately and truthfully, and any insult or injury to any of the parties described or quoted herein or to their families is unintentional. The publishers will be happy to correct any inaccuracies in later editions.

      Afghan identities have been obscured in a few cases in order to protect the individuals and their families.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       List of Illustrations

       Maps

       1 Day of Days

       2 Green On – Go

       3 ‘The Lawless Province of Helmand’

       4 Afghanistan’s Plains

       5 The Road to Sangin

       6 Operation Mutay

       7 Rapid Reaction

       8 Platoon House

       9 The Testing

       10 Jacko

       11 Musa Qaleh

       12 Operation Augustus

       13 Eating Dust

       14 Hesco

       15 Attrition

       16 The Musa Muckers

       17 Peace of Exhaustion

       18 Going Home

       Acronyms and Abbreviations

       Honours and Awards

       Acknowledgments

       Backad …

       About the Author

       Index

       Photo Insert

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       List of Illustrations

      FIRST PLATE SECTION

      A Chinook is silhouetted above the Helmand desert.

      Taliban fighters. © AP/PA Photos

      Now Zad from ANP Hill. © Captain Nick French

      Private Damien Jackson during Operation Mutay.

      © Private Jamie Stewart Halton

      Patrols Platoon during Mutay. © Lance Corporal Lee Hewitson

      Looking out over the wadi and bazaar from a Sangin sangar.

      Morning for the mortarmen at Kajaki dam.

      © Corporal Andrew Evans

      Patrols Platoon Commander Captain Mark Swann and Lance

      Corporal Andrew ‘Chalkie’ White by their WMIK in Gereshk. ©

       Lance Corporal Dave Bradbury

      A GPMG gunner engages Taliban fighters from ANP Hill.

      © Sergeant Peter White

      Private Martin Cork flying back from Mutay.

      © Captain Martin Taylor

      Captain Hugo Farmer and Corporals Quentin ‘Prig’ Poll, Stephen

      ‘Hoss’ Cartwright, James Shimmins and ‘Chalkie’ White in the

      shade of a stripped-down Pinzgauer. © Captain Martin Taylor

      Corporal Tam McDermott on the roof of the Sangin district centre.

      © Major Will Pike

      Hostile faces in Sangin. © Private Marc Holmes

      Private Neil Edwards, Lance Corporal Noel Brooksbank, and

      Private Marc Holmes and Alistair Hartley in a Sangin sangar.

      © Private Marc Holmes

      Lance Corporal Paul Roberts, Corporal Stuart Giles, Sergeant Brian

      Reidy and Medical Officer Captain Harvey Pynn.

      © Sergeant Dan Jarvie

      Soldiers doss down on the floor at the Sangin district centre. ©

       Private Marc Holmes

      Corporal Mark Wright in the Sangin compound.

      © Captain Nick French

      Lieutenant Any Mallet leads a patrol into Sangin town centre.

      © Corporal Andrew Waddington

      Sergeant Dan Jarvie. © Crown copyright

      Major Will Pike,

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