Blood, Metal and Dust av Brigadier (retired) Ben OBE (Senior Fellow Land Warfare) Barry

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<b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2021, THE BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED WRITING AWARDS. FIRST RUNNER UP IN THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2021. </b><b>''With a soldier¿s eye for telling operational details, Ben Barry offers an authoritative, compelling and inevitably bleak account of the American and British campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.'' </b><b>Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King¿s College London</b><b>Newly revised and updated with in-depth analysis of the current situation in Afghanistan after American withdrawal, </b><b><i>Blood, Metal and Dust </i>is an authoritative account of how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were played out, explaining their underlying politics and telling the story of what happened on the ground.</b>From the high-ranking officer who wrote the still-classified British military analysis of the war in Iraq comes the auth