3 Para. Patrick Bishop

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      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, OC ‘A’ Company. © Crown copyright

      Captain Martin Taylor. © Major Will Pike

      WO2 Zac Leong. © Captain Martin Taylor

      Captain Matt Taylor. © Lieutenant Martin Hewitt

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      Captains Alex Mackenzie and mate Piers Ashfield having a brew at

      Sangin. © Lieutenant Martin Hewitt

      Corporal Jay Jackson on stag in Sangin. © Corporal Dave Salmon

      Regimental Sergeant Major John Hardy.

      © Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal

      Lieutenant Ollie Dale gets his head down in Sangin.

      © Corporal Dave Salmon

      The Pathfinders at Musa Qaleh. © Nick Wight-Boycott

      Sergeant Major Mick Bolton in front of the Sangin district centre.

      © Captain Euan Goodman

      A mortar section at Sangin fires in support of patrols on the

      ground. © Captain Euan Goodman

      A Chinook takes off from Sangin under fire. © Corporal Carl Tees

      Private Pete McKinley recovering from shrapnel wounds in the

      base hospital. © Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal

      Corporal Bryan Budd on patrol in Sangin. © Captain Hugo Farmer

      Rifleman Nabin Rai after a contact with Taliban in Now Zad.

      © Major Dan Rex

      Major Huw Williams, Captain Nick French and a signaller at Musa

      Qaleh. © Captain Martin Taylor

      A .50-cal heavy machine gun inside a well-reinforced sangar at

      Sangin. © Major Jamie Loden

      Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal in the desert near Musa Qaleh.

      © Captain Nick French

      Heading out to the helicopter landing site after a successful

      resupply operation at Musa Qaleh. © Crown copyright

      ‘Giving the Taliban the good news’. Watching an air strike go in

      outside Musa Qaleh. © Crown copyright

      Sergeant Christopher ‘Freddie’ Kruyer. © Staff Sergeant Pete Joiner

      Dinner at Bastion. © Crown copyright

      Major Adam Jowett, OC of Easy Company, chats with local elders.

      © Gaz Faulkner

      Captain Hugo Farmer on patrol in Gereshk in full kit.

      © Captain Emma Couper

      Private Dave Prosser and other members of Mortar Platoon.

      © Sergeant Freddie Kruyer

      A shura in Sangin.

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       List of Maps

      Afghanistan

      Helmand Province

      Sangin

      Gereshk

      Musa Qaleh

      Now Zad

       1

       Day of Days

      At about 8 a.m. on the morning of 6 September 2006 Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Tootal rolled out of his cot, pulled on his uniform and boots and set off along the duckboard walkway to catch up on overnight events.

      The sun was already high and a pale, malevolent haze hovered over the talcum-powder dust of the Helmand desert. He reached СКАЧАТЬ