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3 Commando Brigade by Ewen Southby-Tailyour (Hardcover, 2008)

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The 3 Commando Brigade's six month deployment in Helmand Province was among the finest pieces of soldiering I have come across' General Sir Richard Dannett, Chief of General StaffIn October 2006, the Royal Marine Commandos took up their six month tour of duty in war-torn Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan - the toughest and hottest war zone on earth. After the tactical retreat of their predecessors, the Paras, the Marines knew they would have to take a different approach to have any chance of success. So they took the war to the enemy. Roving and aggressive, the Commandos forced the insurgent Taliban on to the back foot. As a result, they were involved in daily fire fights of an intensity not encountered by British troops since North Korea.3 Commando Brigade is a thrilling first-hand account of that dogged, heroic pursuit of the Taliban by the ordinary Marines, sailors and soldiers responsible. It is a story of valour, fortitude, supreme physical and mental fitness, and unrivalled professionalism under the most testing of circumstances. The account explodes from the first page with Operation Glacier, a graphic, no-holds-barred account of a Commando attack on a key Taliban base south of Garmsir - a battle that ends with the dramatic recovery of a Corporal's body from alongside the fort by Apache helicopters. From this opening salvo the action never lets up, offering a startlingly honest account of the war in Afghanistan as told by the junior officers, corporals and marines on the ground.

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Ebury Publishing
ISBN-13
9780091926953
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Author
Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Publication Name
3 Commando Brigade
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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237mm
Item Width
157mm
Item Weight
588g

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Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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4 out of 5 stars
by mrm8353.1473Dec 28, 2016
3Commando.
Really enjoyed this book, felt as if i was in the thick of battle. Could not put it down. Gripping accounts of fighting the enemy ill equipped and low on ammo. Brave men, exciting and heartbreaking accounts of battle.
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by tuftstacMay 07, 2011
Mixed disappointment!
Military historian and retired Royal Marines Lieutenant Colonel Ewen Southby-Tailyour has written in 3 Commando Brigade, a rather dry and uninteresting book that I would generously characterise as modest in its' retelling of events in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, 2006. In the author's notes at the end of the book, Southby-Tailyour thanks a colleague in helping to shape his manuscript "... into something more appealing to a wider audience... from 'niche market' to 'mass market'." This was not achieved. 3 Commando Brigade remains the work of a military historian. Perhaps this book will become invaluable as a source for future historians but as a book in its' own right, it does not succeed. There is no dramatic narrative to this book, though perhaps that is the author's intention - to remove any 'glamour' from the awful truth of the battlefield. However, neither are there any strong characters to this book. Names occasionally repeat but not to the point of familiarity, stories are told and fragments of scenes are depicted but nothing really holds together. Firefights that take hours are skimmed over rapidly. The book becomes self-limited as a collection of disjointed non-linear recollections and quotes. Despite the author, one still leaves this book with a tremendous admiration for the determination of the soldiers involved, though also quite strongly, that they are achieving next to nothing out there. Hills are 'taken' and compounds are 'cleared' and these operations are deemed a 'success' by those in command but there certainly seems to be an underlying acknowledgment that what the marines have done will not last, that their achievements are ultimately transient. To be brutally honest i would not recommend this book, as to get a true picture of what it was like to be a footsoldier on the frontline of Afghanistan you will not be enlightened!Read full review

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