"Immediate Response"
Maj Mark Hammond
Penguin-Michael Joseph, 2009
It's easy in the United States to overlook the robust British effort in Afghanistan - but "Immediate Response" goes a long way in setting the record straight.
Written by Maj Mark Hammond, Royal Marines,"Immediate Response" is the story of Hammond's Chinook squadron fighting in Helmand Province. Hammond is a helicopter pilot flying British troops into hot LZ's and taking out the wounded. These are incredibly important and stressful missions in which lives are saved or lost due to his flying ability.
Hammond is a superb writer. He succeeds in bringing the reader into the cockpit with him, in the heat, sand, and dust in which he and his mates live and work. They cope with the stress with black humor as saracastic, sophmoric, and semi-obscene as do our troops; this is a no-holds-barred look at men at war.
Our British allies are doing an excellent job in Afghanistan; well done Maj Hammond in making us aware of it.
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