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Task Force Helmand: A Soldier's Story of Life, Death and Combat on the Afghan Front Line
by Beattie, Doug
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F.
- ISBN 10
- 1847376444
- ISBN 13
- 9781847376442
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2009* Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £17.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges. No other visible faults. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Colour photo-illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. FINE.* Illustrations: Two x 8 pp. blocks of colour photos.* Pages: 314 pp. text. xxvii pp. Epilogue, glossary, picture credits, index and blank pages at rear.* Description: In 2006 Doug Beattie of 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment was awarded the Military Cross for his part in recapturing the town of Garmsir from the Taliban. He was supposed to retire in 2007 but was persuaded by his CO to return for a final time. Within days of landing in Helmand for this final tour of duty, the 42-year-old wondered what he had let himself in for. If 2006 had been hellish, then 2008 was off the scale. The book offers extraordinary insights into a campaign which involved ever larger numbers of British service personnel.* A FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with NO MAJOR FAULTS.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5139
- Title
- Task Force Helmand: A Soldier's Story of Life, Death and Combat on the Afghan Front Line
- Author
- Beattie, Doug
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 1847376444
- ISBN 13
- 9781847376442
- Publisher
- Andrews McMeel
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 368
- Date Published
- 2009-10-01
- Size
- 16.2 x 24.2 x 3.4 cm
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