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I picked this up from a local charity shop in Blackburn for £2.09. Excellent unread condition too.
Hardbacked first edition copy from 2011 titled " Dead Men Risen" The Welsh Guards and the real story of Britain's war in Afghanistan signed by Author, Ex Royal Navy Officer and now a foreign correspondant, Toby Harnden and dated Abergavenny June 2011.
Toby Harnden (born 14 January 1966) is an Anglo-American journalist and author. He has been Washington bureau chief of The Sunday Times since January 2013. He previously spent 17 years at The Telegraph, based in London, Belfast, Washington, Jerusalem and Baghdad, finishing as US Editor from 2006 to 2011, and was also US Executive Editor of Mail Online and US Editor of The Daily Mail for a year in 2012. He is the author of two books: Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (1999) and Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Defining Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan (2011). Dead Men Risen won the 2012 Orwell Prize for Books. He was reporter and presenter of the BBC Panorama Special programme Broken by Battle about suicide and PTSD among British soldiers, broadcast on July 15, 2013.
He entered Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in January 1985 and passed out the following August. He was awarded a First in Modern History from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in July 1988. At Oxford, Harnden was Junior Common Room President of Corpus Christi in 1987, succeeding David Miliband. Before becoming a journalist, Harnden was an officer in the Royal Navy, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant in 1994 [8] after service ashore and at sea in the assault ships HMS Fearless, and HMS Intrepid, the minesweeper HMS Itchen, the destroyers HMS Manchester and HMS Edinburgh and the frigate HMS Cornwall. During his training he was an exchange officer with the Royal Norwegian Navy, helping to transport reindeer on troop landing craft. His final naval appointment was in the Ministry of Defence as Flag Lieutenant to the Second Sea Lord.
Nice find for the military side of my collection of signed books.
