"In December 2007, Stephen Grey, a Sunday Times reporter, was under fire from the enemy as British and American forces struggled to liberate the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala. Sheltering from the bullets behind an American-armoured Humvee, Grey turned his head to witness a sce…
While the author served as an embedded reporter with Company B, 2 Yorks in southern Afghanistan in 2007, he saw firsthand the chaos of battle during Operation Snakebite. The operation's mission was to secure Musa Qala, a town integral to the drug trade, from the Taliban. The aut…