Company Commander - Softcover

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Major Russell Lewis was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1994. His operational experience includes tours of Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Iraq. In 2008 he commanded B Company, 2 PARA in Afghanistan. His Company was based just outside of Sangin, where for six brutal months they fought a determined and aggressive enemy. In 2009 he was awarded a Military Cross for his leadership and gallantry.

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IN 2008 MAJOR RUSSELL LEWIS COMMANDED A COMPANY OF 200 SOLDIERS FROM THE BRITISH ARMY'S LEGENDARY PARACHUTE REGIMENT ON A SIX-MONTH TOUR IN THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF AFGHANISTAN.

COMPANY COMMANDER is his story, a riveting first-person account of incredible bravery, telling what it is like to have 200 Paras depending on you constantly, to make decisions which can and do cost lives, to see men under your control killed and injured and to be under the most intense pressure imaginable every minute of every day for six long months.

COMPANY COMMANDER is a true leader's story - a unique and vivid mix of front-line battles and strategic decision-making, and an intensely personal and inspiring account of a tour in the most perilous theatre of war on the planet.