A full, no-holds-barred account of the bloodiest single episode in Britain’s controversial deployment in Iraq - the deaths of six young Paras under the feet of a mob in June 2003. A terrifying story of confusion and tragedy.

This book tells the full story of one of the most tragic and controversial episodes in Britain’s occupation of Iraq : the deaths of Parachute Regiment Redcaps in June 2003 who were trapped in a police station and shot and stamped to death by a rampaging mob. Mark NIcol’s book tells for the first time the sequence of incidents, mistakes and confusion that led up to the British army’s biggest single loss in combat since the 1982 Falklands War. He investigates how an apparently routine mission could go so tragically wrong - and shows how reinforcements and rescue missions by land and in the air - failed to save the trapped young soldiers as, out of radio contact and ammunition, they were overwhelmed by their killers. Using the no-holds-barred letters home of the soldiers involved, and extensive interviews with survivors, Nicol grippingly reconstructs the tragedy and takes us into the terrifying heart of modern warfare.

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Product Code:	10644
Author:	Mark Nicol
Format:	301pp, b/w and colour photographs, hb. Published Price £16.99
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