Colonel Richard Kemp is a former Commanding Officer of the 1st
Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment and later commanded all
British forces in Afghanistan. He was advisor to the Prime Minister
on international terrorism, Iraq and Afghanistan, for which he was
awarded the CBE. Although an infantryman, he invaded Iraq in a
Challenger tank in 1991 with British forces in the US 3rd Army, and
has spent much time in that country since the 2003 invasion.
Chris Hughes is Security Correspondent for the Daily Mirror and has
spent considerable time with British forces on the Afghan
frontline. He was embedded with the Royal Anglians for several
weeks at the height of the tour described in this book. He covered
the aftermath of 9/11 in New York and has for the past five years
reported on the ensuing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
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