
Helmand Province, October 2006: British soldiers are engaged in the most intense, sustained fighting they've faced since the Korean War. Against a tough, experienced and frighteningly motivated enemy, their lives too often depended on the success of danger-close, pin-point attacks pressed home from the air. When 800 Naval Air Squadron - callsign 'Recoil' - arrived in theatre, their Boss, Commander...
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Penguin UK; UK ed. edition (April 28, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141035714
ISBN-13: 978-0141035710
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 4500774
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Book was good, easy to read. But lacked a lot of action you might have expected. Where combat accounts occur, these make up for the base accounts of non combat life. If your wanting to know what life is like "over there," on a remote base the is a pr...
d, knew there could be no slip-ups. Day and night, the Fleet Air Arm crews were on constant alert, ready to scramble their heavily armed Harrier attack jets at a moment's notice in support of the men on the ground. The call wasn't slow in coming. Just fifteen minutes after getting airborne for the first time, Orchard and his wingman were in the thick of it, called in when an Apache helicopter gunship was forced back by heavy fire . . . The first book written by a serving British fast jet pilot since the 1991 Gulf War, Joint Force Harrier offers an unprecedented, heart-stopping insight into the realities of modern air warfare. The complexity and sophistication of the equipment may have moved on since the epic war battles of WWII, but it's clear that the courage, skill and character of the men engaged in this struggle for a country's survival has not.