In the summer of 2005, a four-man SAS patrol is moving through a neighborhood in southern Baghdad that American intelligence has flagged as a dry hole. The houses have been...
The air inside the kill house smells of concrete dust and the chemical afterburn of blank rounds. Somewhere behind the ballistic glass of the observation gallery, a dozen men in...
Baghdad, Iraq. Summer 2005, 2:00 in the morning, and the heat is still 38° C, 100° F, radiating upward from concrete that has been baking since dawn. The air smells...
August 14th, 2006. Bakuba, Diiala Province. The air is 48° C and it tastes like someone set fire to a landfill. Staff Sergeant Colin Birds, 22, Special Air Service D...
The air inside the kill house smells of concrete dust and the chemical afterburn of blank rounds. Somewhere behind the ballistic glass of the observation gallery, a dozen men in...
In 2006, inside a bunker came the Death Star at Balad Air Base in Iraq, a British special air service officer stood in front of a room full of American...
On May 5th, 1980, millions of people across Britain sat in their living rooms watching either a John Wayne Western on BBC 1, the World Snooker Championships on BBC 2,...
Private Danny Grieve, second battalion, the Parachute Regiment, 22 years old and 11 months into his first operational tour, was lying face down in a ditch outside a compound in...
Five men sat in the dirt outside a hanger at Bram Air Base, and not one of them said a word about what had just happened. Their faces were black...
October 2003, Helmond Province, Afghanistan. The Chinuk dropped the joint task force 3 kilometers east of the target compound at 0217 hours. 12 men stepped onto ground that felt like...