First Casualty av Toby Harnden

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''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