Desperate Glory : 'Taste the Bullets and the Fear - Kiley Takes the Reader into the Heart of the Afghan Nightmare'

Kiley, Sam

ISBN 10: 140880123X / ISBN 13: 9781408801239

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Desperate Glory : 'Taste the Bullets and the Fear - Kiley Takes the Reader into the Heart of the Afghan Nightmare'
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140880123X
• ISBN 13: 9781408801239
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.481 pounds

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Synopsis

In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted access to the front line, Sam Kiley is with them to bear witness to the most intense challenges of their lives. "Desperate Glory" is an unflinching portrait of the reality of war - the bombs, the shooting and the daily struggles that push them to the very limit of human endurance.

About the Author

Award-winning journalist Sam Kiley has covered wars and insurgencies in more than thirty countries over the last twenty years. Educated at Oxford University, he joined The Times in 1987, and since 1990 has worked as a foreign correspondent all over the world, most notably in Africa, where he won acclaim for his coverage of conflicts in the Congo, Somalia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. He has worked extensively in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taleban and has made more than twenty television films for Channel Four, Sky 1 and the BBC. He is a frequent contributor to the Mail on Sunday, the Evening Standard, the Observer, The Times and the Spectator. Married and a father of two, Sam Kiley lives in the countryside of East Anglia.