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The 4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (4 PARA), is an Army Reserve unit of the British Army.Now recruiting across the United Kingdom originally the Battalion covered the North of England, with its headquarters located in Pudsey, West Yorkshire.
The siege of Sangin was a military engagement which occurred between June 2006 and April 2007, between Taliban insurgents and the British Army during the war in Afghanistan. During the engagement, the district centre of Sangin District in Helmand Province was occupied by British forces and was completely surrounded by Taliban fighters.
Ben Parkinson MBE [1] (born 31 March 1984 [citation needed]) is a former British paratrooper, veteran's campaigner and author. [2] He is the most severely wounded soldier to survive the War in Afghanistan. [3]
Colour Sergeant Joshua Mark Leakey VC (born 1988) is a British soldier currently serving in the Parachute Regiment.In 2015, Leakey was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the British and Commonwealth armed forces, for his involvement in a joint UK–US raid in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on 22 August 2013.
Before embarking on Outlaw Platoon. Parnell's coauthor, military historian John R. Bruning, embedded himself with a unit in Afghanistan in 2010 in preparation for writing the book for Parnell. [3] The book was discussed as part of the Commandant's Book Club at the United States Military Academy in 2013. [4]
The book collected anonymous memoirs of soldiers and relatives. [3] The book followed the method she employed in her two previous documentary books on war, War's Unwomanly Face and Last Witnesses . Although the author corrected the language of the interviewees, she avoids any commentary. [4] German literary critic Dietmar Jacobsen writes:
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan is a 1996 non-fiction book translated from Russian and edited by American military scholar and author Lester W. Grau. The book is translated from a study initially published by the Frunze Military Academy in 1991 titled "Combat Actions of Soviet Forces in the Republic of ...
Philip Anthony Sessarego (31 December 1952 – November 2008), also known by the pen-name Tom Carew, was a British soldier, adventurer and author, who published the best-selling book Jihad! – The Secret War in Afghanistan. His reputation and credibility were damaged by the revelation of false claims in the book, after which he retired from ...