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| Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Mills
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
Buy Used: £1.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 316
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0141029013
EAN: 9780141029016
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Only read once
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| Customer Reviews:
Amazing real life account October 5, 2008
A truly amazing book. Never have I read such a page turner and its fact not fiction. This book will blow your hair back, if you have even the vaguest interest in the Iraq war you should definitely read this.
The British Army hold a small compound in Al Amarah while the reconstruction teams being their work. Unfortunately they don't get very far before the local insurgency decide to declare all out war. The first major attack is repelled, but constant insurgency eventually force the army to hold up in their compound where over a 23-day period they took 595 mortar rounds from the insurgents, 57 RPG's, 5 107mm rockets and were attacked by many hundreds of OMS fighters. A single company, massively outnumbered managed (just) to hold out, and the story as told by Dan Mills, the lead sniper is breathtaking.
No brainer...buy it now. October 4, 2008
OMG! I cant believe this is only 3.99!!!! I spotted it in the airport on my way out on hols - but paid 3 times as much. Having read it though, I would pay that again! Much to my wifes disgust, I missed much of my holiday as I couldnt get my head out of it. A real eye opener that is fantastically written - gritty, shocking, informative, humorous, ( I couldnt stop laughing on the plane when he describes the over excited dog jumping in the pool!) and certainly makes you proud of 'our lads'.
Great read October 3, 2008
One of those books you enjoy reading. Bought this to read on my 11 hour flight to Thailand and i was 3/4 through it by the time we landed in Bangkok. The skill and courage of these soldiers is amazing.
sniper one September 29, 2008
I'm not great at describing things and i am sure as hell no jouralist. However, i'd recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what the realities of what our boys face out there on the front line really are. This book is fast paced from the start and if you are like me, you will have read the book from cover to cover in two days! One of the best books i have read in a long time.
 21st Century Rorke's Drift September 20, 2008
If you thought that Britain's involvement in Iraq was all 'hearts and minds' and smiles for the camera (as politicians may have you believe) while the Americans got stuck in, then this book will put you right. A stunning account of how the Prince of Wales Royal Regiment pulled off a modern day Rorke's Drift style operation in defence of Al-Amarah (the backdrop to Pte. Johnson Beharry's VC award). The book starts with a bang and continues from there, even when you think things have quietened down it all kicks off again. A brilliant roller-coaster account of what life must be like as a modern British soldier fighting a vicious war that few people understand or know about.
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