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Task Force Black

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349123554

Price: £10.99

ON SALE: 3rd February 2011

Genre: Biography & True Stories

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The book the MoD doesn’t want you to read’ Daily Mail

Soon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.

Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a war. Major-General Stan McChrystal devised a campaign fusing special forces, aircraft, and the latest surveillance technology with the aim of taking down the enemy faster than it could regenerate. Guided by intelligence, a small British special forces team met the car bombers’ fire with fire and accounted for thousands of insurgents.

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A ground-breaking, often chilling account . . . remarkable
Sunday Times
The book the MoD doesn't want you to read
Daily Mail
With unparalleled access to sources inside the SAS itself, Urban paints a picture of how our finest fighting men could be truly effective . . . An essential record of a remarkable military period
The Times