In a powerful new book, the Mail’s defence editor argues that the lives of British soldiers were sacrificed to preserve the rights of those determined to blast them into the afterlife…
Late November 2001
A Union Jack fluttered in the breeze in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as SAS soldiers – Blades as they were proud to call themselves – clambered aboard a Land Rover to pose for a photo against a backdrop of sandy wilderness.
In their desert fatigues, unkempt and unshaven, some reclined against the front bumper while others sprawled on top of the chassis: an image that harked back six decades to
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