In 2021, the British Army's 20-year engagement in Afghanistan ended. The Paras had been involved since the earliest days of conflict. In 2008, 2 and 3 Paras were deployed to Afghanistan, fighting the Taliban. With over 200 photos, this book takes the reader on a visual journey, showing the soldiers, their equipment, weapons and vehicles.
"The great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century', as American statesman George F Kennan described the war, has had no shortage of accounts seen chiefly from Allied perspectives. In using Vienna and Berlin as his vantage points, Herwig has comprehensively shown for the first time the other side of that prodigiously wasteful conflict.
Offers a diplomatic and military history of the Second World War, as it was fought by the United States and Britain. This title examines the war these two powers fought in the European and Far Eastern theatres against Germany, Italy and Japan and the nature of the Churchill-Roosevelt special relationship.
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