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Tag Archives: Iraq

Insult to Injury – Simon Armitage’s The Not Dead

September 19, 2012

An officer, fresh from Helmand, played us the mobile phone footage: the excited chatter and the puny rifle cracks were alien …

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An Olympic Struggle – Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise

July 31, 2012

Buy Phantom Noise from Bloodaxe Books Today, the Nigerien rower, Hamadou Djibo Issaka, dubbed ‘the sculling sloth’ by the UK’s …

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Songs of Innocence and Experience – Brian Turner’s Here Bullet

July 23, 2012

Buy Here, Bullet from Amazon.co.uk It was the embedded reporters who grabbed my attention during Operation Iraqi Freedom and its …

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