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Major Richard Streatfeild, MBE commanded A Company 4 Rifles during their tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009. They were based in the Sangin valley during a period of continuous and heavy fighting against the Taliban. While serving in Afghanistan he contributed a remarkable audio blog to Radio 4's mehr anzeigen Today programme. Before Afghanistan, he saw active service in Northern Ireland and the Balkans. weniger anzeigen
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Honourable Warriors by Major Richard Streatfeild is his account of fighting the Taliban out in Afghanistan for seven months in 2009. During that time he also took part in an audio blog for Radio 4’s Today programme. Streatfield and his company were based in the Sangin Valley during a period of continuous heavy fighting with the Taliban.
What this book does is describe in detail what it is like to be attacked over 200 times with IEDs along with the guerrilla tactics that he and his men had to endure. You feel the battle weariness when you find that they have over 800 fire fights with the Taliban and over seven months is absolutely frightening. We are able to see through this book the physical, psychological and political battles that the soldiers have to face while coming to terms with battle stress, battle casualties and the death the supreme sacrifice.
When we see reports in our newspapers, or hear them on radio and TV we rarely see how the soldiers are coping, as we are asking our young men and women to be prepared to lay down their lives in battles they probably do not understand they are fighting. What Richard Streatfeild has brought us is something akin to the diaries and letters we get from wars of previous eras.
You cannot help but feel moved by what has been written by Richard Streatfeild and our politicians should also read accounts such as Honourable Warriors and they may not be in such a hurry to send our soldiers to war. This is hopefully the start of the eyewitness accounts of those who actually fought rather than those who were mere observers.
Honourable Warriors is a powerful and honest account that does not hold back and you feel the pain of all soldiers who are trying to break down the barriers to win hearts and minds as well as fight. This is a wonderful narrative account of the British Army at war with the planning and tactics to the wounded and dead.
Honourable Warriors is an excellent account of the war in Afghanistan and gives the narrative from the participants who are our Honourable Warriors, unlike those dishonourable politicians who sent in to battle.
I can highly recommend this account as very readable and deeply touching narrative of war.… (mehr)