Operation Snakebite: The Explosive True Story Of An Afghan Desert Siege, by Stephen Grey (Viking £16.99) Reviewed by Trevor Royle
BOOKS about the fighting in Afghanistan threaten to become ten-a-penny. Not only does Nato's campaign against the Taliban look increasingly like a rerun of the Thirty Years War but it is being covered relentlessly by an army of embedded journalists and commentators.
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