First Casualty

The Untold Story of the Battle That Began the War in Afghanistan

Toby Harnden, John Hopkins

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English

Welbeck Publishing Group
19 October 2021

History; Military history: post WW2 conflicts; Afghan War; Terrorism, armed struggle; Battles & campaigns

'Gripping ... A terrific action narrative' Max Hastings

'Reads like a Tom Clancy thriller, yet every word is true ... This is modern warfare close-up and raw' Andrew Roberts

Bestselling and Orwell Prize-winning author Toby Harnden tells the gripping and incredible story of the six-day battle that began the War in Afghanistan and how it set the scene for twenty years of conflict.

The West is in shock. Al-Qaeda has struck the US on 9/11 and thousands are dead.

Within weeks, UK Special Forces enter the fray in Afghanistan alongside the CIA's Team Alpha and US troops.

Victory is swift, but fragile. Hundreds of jihadists surrender and two operatives from Team Alpha enter Qala-i Jangi

the 'Fort of War'

to interrogate them. The prisoners revolt, one CIA man falls, and the other is trapped inside the fort. Seven members of the SBS

elite British Special Forces

volunteer for the rescue force and race into danger and the unknown.

The six-day battle that follows proves to be one of the bloodiest of the Afghanistan war as the SBS and their American comrades face an enemy determined to die in the mud citadel.

Superbly researched, First Casualty is based on unprecedented access to the CIA, SBS, and US Special Forces. Orwell Prize-winning author Toby Harnden recounts the gripping story of that first battle in Afghanistan and how the haunting foretelling it contained

unreliable allies, ethnic rivalries, suicide attacks, and errant bombs

was ignored, fueling the twenty-year conflict to come.

By: Toby Harnden
Read by: John Hopkins
Imprint: Welbeck Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 688g
ISBN: 9781787396449
ISBN 10: 1787396444
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 19 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Toby Harnden has been a journalist for 25 years, after previously spending a decade in the Royal Navy. He is currently the Managing Editor of theWashington Examiner, and before that was the Washington Bureau Chief of theSunday Times. He has written two critically acclaimed and bestselling books, includingDead Men Risen, which won the 2012 Orwell Prize.

Reviews for First Casualty: The Untold Story of the Battle That Began the War in Afghanistan

'Gripping ... A terrific action narrative' -- Max Hastings 'Reads like a Tom Clancy thriller, yet every word is true ... This is modern warfare close-up and raw' -- Andrew Roberts