October 15, 2010
Journalist Grey (former editor, Sunday Times; Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program), who won an Amnesty International award for his journalism on CIA rendition, here recounts a few short days in December 2007 when an American battalion, a British regiment, and an Afghan battalion moved on Musa Qala, the only major Helmand Province town (population 15,000-20,000) then held by the Taliban. It turned into a rough set-piece battle against an entrenched and determined force. Skillfully and sympathetically told from the point of view of the hard-pressed soldiers, Grey's book will be a strong addition to the growing literature on the Afghan war. Published in the UK last year as Operation Snakebite.
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