List of Illustrations

      FIRST PLATE SECTION

      A Chinook is silhouetted above the Helmand desert.

      Taliban fighters. © AP/PA Photos

      Now Zad from ANP Hill. © Captain Nick French

      Private Damien Jackson during Operation Mutay.

      © Private Jamie Stewart Halton

      Patrols Platoon during Mutay. © Lance Corporal Lee Hewitson

      Looking out over the wadi and bazaar from a Sangin sangar.

      Morning for the mortarmen at Kajaki dam.

      © Corporal Andrew Evans

      Patrols Platoon Commander Captain Mark Swann and Lance

      Corporal Andrew ‘Chalkie’ White by their WMIK in Gereshk. ©

       Lance Corporal Dave Bradbury

      A GPMG gunner engages Taliban fighters from ANP Hill.

      © Sergeant Peter White

      Private Martin Cork flying back from Mutay.

      © Captain Martin Taylor

      Captain Hugo Farmer and Corporals Quentin ‘Prig’ Poll, Stephen

      ‘Hoss’ Cartwright, James Shimmins and ‘Chalkie’ White in the

      shade of a stripped-down Pinzgauer. © Captain Martin Taylor

      Corporal Tam McDermott on the roof of the Sangin district centre.

      © Major Will Pike

      Hostile faces in Sangin. © Private Marc Holmes

      Private Neil Edwards, Lance Corporal Noel Brooksbank, and

      Private Marc Holmes and Alistair Hartley in a Sangin sangar.

      © Private Marc Holmes

      Lance Corporal Paul Roberts, Corporal Stuart Giles, Sergeant Brian

      Reidy and Medical Officer Captain Harvey Pynn.

      © Sergeant Dan Jarvie

      Soldiers doss down on the floor at the Sangin district centre. ©

       Private Marc Holmes

      Corporal Mark Wright in the Sangin compound.

      © Captain Nick French

      Lieutenant Any Mallet leads a patrol into Sangin town centre.

      © Corporal Andrew Waddington

      Sergeant Dan Jarvie. © Crown copyright

      Major Will Pike,