Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege

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The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege
Author:
Dan Mills
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Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege

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It's April 2004: Dan Mills and his platoon of snipers fly into southern Iraq, part of an infantry battalion sent to win hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives. Back home we were told they were peacekeeping. But there was no peace to keep.

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We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark, small oval-shaped package of misery the size of a peach ...April 2004: Dan Mills and his platoon of snipers fly into southern Iraq, part of an infantry battalion sent to win hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives. Back home we were told they were peacekeeping. But there was no peace to keep. Because within days of arriving in theatre, Mills and his men were caught up in the longest, most sustained fire fight British troops had faced for over fifty years. This awe-inspiring account tells of total war in throat-burning winds and fifty-degree heat, blasted by mortars and surrounded by heavily armed militias. For six months, they fought alone: isolated, besieged and under constant enemy fire. Their heroic stand a modern-day Rorke's Drift.

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Publisher:
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
ISBN:
9780141029016
Publication date:
May 2008
Length:
198mm
Width:
129mm
Thickness:
24mm
Weight:
290g
Pages:
384
Illustrations:
2x8 page colour inset

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One of the best first-hand accounts of combat that I've ever read. --Andy McNab, international bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero

Mills powerfully describes the demanding work of his snipers before and after the city was brought under control...British participation in Iraq has been largely ignored in the U.S. That should change with Mills's page-turning account. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Possibly the year's best book, so far, on combat in Iraq. -- Booklist

A gritty, speedball run...strong, cohesive, and complete...plugs the reader straight into the blood and guts of the action. -- The Times (UK)

Another testosterone-laced memoir of an elite unit kicking butt in Iraq, this one with a cheerful, politically incorrect British twist....A military memoir refreshingly devoid of the usual patriotic overlay. -- Kirkus Reviews

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  The real skiet-piets
Reviewed by Don from Western Cape on 08 December 2009
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a good story highlighting how badly equipped the British troops were in Iraq.

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