Book description
We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!'
simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade
took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark, small
oval-shaped package of misery the size of a peach ...
April 2004: Sgt Dan Mills and his platoon of snipers fly into
southern Iraq, part of an infantry battalion sent to win hearts and
minds. They were soon fighting for their lives.
Back home we were told they were peacekeeping. But there was no
peace to keep. Because within days of arriving in theatre, Mills and
his men were caught up in the longest, most sustained firefight
British troops had faced for over fifty years.
This awe-inspiring account tells of total war in throat-burning
winds and fifty-degree heat, blasted by mortars and surrounded by
heavily armed militias. For six months, they fought alone: isolated,
besieged and under constant enemy fire. Their heroic stand a
modern-day Rorke's Drift.
