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#WavellReviews “Blood, Metal and Dust: How victory turned to defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq” by Brigadier (retd) Ben Barry

The Wavell Room Team
Rather than cutting off when large scale US /UK deployments ended, the author catches the reader up to the current situation as at publication.  The...
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#WavellReviews ‘Mission Improbable: The Transformation of the British Army Reserve’ by Patrick Bury

Chris
‘Mission Improbable’ has been exquisitely researched.  In places, its level of detail reminded me of reading Anthony Beevor’s Stalingrad....
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#WavellReviews An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland by Edward Burke

Alexander Helm
There are stories which need to be told, and not forgotten; because to withhold them warps the wider narrative of the whole conflict, and influences...