Operation Snakebite

By Stephen Grey

Book Overview

Coming up to Christmas and reporter Stephen Grey is embedded with B Company 2 Yorks in southern Afghanistan during Operation Snakebite. Their mission: to take the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala. For some this battle will be their last.

In the thick of the fighting Grey provides a breathtaking boots-and-bullets glimpse of combat chaos as British American and Afghan forces struggle to secure a dusty little desert town known to be crucial to the drug trade.

Operation Snakebite reveals everything you need to know about the brutal conflict in Afghanistan: from the political infighting and bureaucratic interference to the frontline troops soldiering on with unsuitable gear and poor intelligence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141038306
• ISBN13: 9780141038308
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.4" x 5.1"