Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment (The Bodley Head, 2017). You may not know his name, but Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book is already being hailed ...
Leigh Neville, The British Army in Afghanistan 2006-14 (Osprey Publishing, 2015) The British Army in Afghanistan 2006-14 is the latest in the “Elite” series of books from Osprey, a specia...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/04/just-the-facts-on-afghanistan-doesnt-tell-the-story/
Mark Evans, Code Black (Coronet, 2015) Code Black is the story of a British Army Officer, Captain Mark Evans, and his deployment to Afghanistan in the summer of 2008. In particular, it focuses...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/03/the-trouble-with-our-afghan-led-campaign/
Toby Harnden, Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan (Regnery, 2014). Before reading this review, there are two things you should know about Dead Men Risen. While new ...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/11/the-lessons-of-the-dead-in-helmand/
At times it seems like every junior officer in the British army has written his or her Afghan War memoirs. Where Leo Docherty (Desert of Death) and Patrick Hennessy (The Junior Officer’s Readin...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/08/new-memoir-captures-what-soldiers-never-say/
Mike Martin, An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict, 1978-2012 (Oxford University Press, 2014) “Fury Over MOD’s bid to ban Book”, “Captain resigns over Afghanistan ...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/05/an-incompetent-war-britain-in-helmand/
Christopher Coker, Men At War: What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From The Iliad to Catch-22 (London/NYC: Hurst/OUP 2014). In an exciting new book, Christopher Coker aims “to grasp the essen...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/03/fiction-as-the-essence-of-war/