Commando - Hardcover

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Where is your limit? Chris Terril is 55 years old. He is not a soldier. He is being trained by the Royal Marines. He is going to Afghanistan. Chris Terrill is a 55-year old documentary maker, who after a lifetime of challenging film assignments in the world's hot spots might have opted for the easy life. But when the Royal Navy invited him to join a group of 18 year old recruits in the grueling basic training at the Royal Marine Commando base at Lympstone in Devon he never flinched.He wanted to understand what it was to become one of the Armed Services elite forces, what mindset was required to undergo an ordeal for which the Marine slogan goes'99.99 per cent need not apply'. And, even more importantly, Chris wanted to discover what mindset a recruit needs to train for, and then face, front line battle in one of the world's most dangerous war zones. Fast forward six months. Chris has passed through the training course, one of only a tiny percentage of his intake who made it. He is now a close friend and confidante of the teenagers with whom he has endured a hellish training period. But now they are flying by Chinook into Helmand Province, Afghanistan to a massive armed town, Fort Bastion.From this besieged fire base they will fight drug traffickers and the Taliban. Chris and his comrades must confront their inner demons as for the first time they go into combat, friends are wounded and killed. For the first time in the War against Terror, Chris captures battle as a cameraman from the frontline as the bullets whistle past."Commando"is a brilliant account of modern warfare as it is today.

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