How to Escape a Taliban Ambush
Lives Less Ordinary
Damien Lewis and Paul Grahame
- The
- Lives
- Less
- Ordinary
- series
- brings
- you
- the
- most
- exciting,
- adventurous
- and
- entertaining
- true-life
- writing
- that
- is
- out
- there,
- for
- men
- who
- are
- time-poor
- but
- want
- the
- best.
- Lives
- Less
- Ordinary
- drops
- you
- into
- extreme
- first-hand
- accounts
- of
- human
- experience,
- whether
- that's
- the
- adrenaline-pumping
- heights
- of
- professional
- sport,
- the
- brutality
- of
- the
- modern
- battlefield,
- the
- casual
- violence
- of
- the
- criminal
- world,
- the
- mind-blowing
- frontiers
- of
- science,
- or
- the
- excesses
- of
- rock
- 'n'
- roll,
- high
- finance
- and
- Hollywood.
- Lives
- Less
- Ordinary
- also
- brings
- you
- some
- of
- the
- finest
- comic
- voices
- around,
- on
- every
- subject
- from
- toilet
- etiquette
- to
- Paul
- Gascoigne.'The
- CO
- had
- given
- me
- the
- word:
- whatever
- it
- took,
- I
- had
- to
- get
- our
- injured
- lads
- out.
- I'd
- ordered
- the
- F15s
- on
- an
- attack
- run
- right
- over
- our
- heads.
- If
- I'd
- got
- it
- wrong
- we
- were
- dead...'Paul
- 'Bommer'
- Grahame
- is
- one
- of
- the
- British
- Army's
- most
- deadlyJTACs
- -
- the
- man
- who,
- with
- high-tech
- precision,
- calls
- in
- the
- airborne
- attacks
- from
- on
- the
- ground
- in
- the
- heart
- of
- the
- battle.
- This
- is
- his
- brutal,
- explosive
- account
- of
- walking
- into
- a
- close
- combat
- Taliban
- attack
- in
- Helmand
- and
- his
- attempts
- to
- get
- his
- fellow
- squaddies
- out
- alive.This
- digital
- bite
- has
- been
- extracted
- from
- Paul
- Grahame
- and
- Damien
- Lewis's
- adrenaline-fuelled
- book
- Fire
- Strike 7/9.
