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MILLS**, SGT DAN: : Sniper One.**

LONDON.PENGUIN/MICHAEL JOSEPH,2007.

ISBN 9780718149949.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creases to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and pristine.Bright,clean,unblemished, publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with crisp,bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xxiipp+1-349pp[paginated] includes illus+picture credits lists/tables,a prologue,29 chapters+epilogue,16pp contemporary colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp136/7 and pp200/1 respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,2 b/w maps,acknowledgements,and 10pp blanks to rear. 7 APRIL 2004: a year to the day since the city had fallen.Saddam had been deposed. The Marines and Paras were long gone and southern Iraq rarely made it into the news.When Sgt Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion,The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew in,they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds.They were soon fighting for their lives.Within hours of their arrival in Iraq,a grenade bounced off one of the battalion's Land Rovers, rolled underneath and detonated.The ambush marked the beginning of a full-scale firefight during which Mills killed a man with a round that removed his assailant's head.It was going to be a long tour. Like some post-apocalyptic Mad Max nightmare,the place had gone to hell in a handcart.Temperatures on the ground topped 50 degreesC,sewage systems had long since packed up,and the stench of cooking waste and piles of festering rubbish grew wherever you looked.Throat-burning winds, blast bombs and well-trained,well-organized militias armed with AKs,RPGs and a limitless supply of mortar rounds were the icing on the cake.If any of Mills's eighteen-man sniper platoon had thought the people of Al Amarah were going to welcome them with open arms,they were rapidly forced to reconsider.For the next six months,isolated,besieged and under constant fire,the battalion refused to give an inch.Cimic House,their HO,may have been a bombsite,but it was home.And its defence - the most intense the British Army had fought in fifty years - was a modern-day Rorke's Drift.'Sniper One' is a breathtaking chronicle of endurance, camaraderie,dark humour and courage in the face of relentless,lethal assault. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

MILLS, SGT DAN: : SNIPER ONE

LONDON.PENGUIN/MICHAEL JOSEPH,2007.

ISBN 9780718149949.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creases to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and pristine.Bright,clean, unblemished,publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xxiipp+1-349pp [paginated] includes illus+picture credits lists/tables,prologue,29 chapters+ epilogue,16pp contemporary colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp136/7 and pp200/1 respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication,2 b/w maps,acknowledgements,and 10pp blanks to rear. 7 APRIL 2004: a year to the day since the city had fallen.Saddam had been deposed. The Marines and Paras were long gone and southern Iraq rarely made it into the news.When Sgt Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion,The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew in,they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives. Within hours of their arrival in Iraq,a grenade bounced off one of the battalion's Land Rovers,rolled underneath and detonated.The ambush marked the beginning of a full-scale firefight during which Mills killed a man with a round that removed his assailant's head.It was going to be a long tour. Like some post-apocalyptic Mad Max nightmare,the place had gone to hell in a handcart.Temperatures on the ground topped 50 degreesC,sewage systems had long since packed up,and the stench of cooking waste and piles of festering rubbish grew wherever you looked.Throat-burning winds, blast bombs and well-trained,well-organized militias armed with AKs,RPGs and a limitless supply of mortar rounds were the icing on the cake. If any of Mills's eighteen-man sniper platoon had thought the people of Al Amarah were going to welcome them with open arms,they were rapidly forced to reconsider. For the next six months,isolated,besieged and under constant fire,the battalion refused to give an inch. Cimic House,their HO,may have been a bombsite,but it was home.And its defence -the most intense the British Army had fought in fifty years - was a modern-day Rorke's Drift. 'Sniper One' is a breathtaking chronicle of endurance,camaraderie,dark humour and courage in the face of relentless,lethal assault. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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