Book description
He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all – the Taliban. In order to prepare for this life-threatening ordeal, Ross Kemp trains with the First Battalion Royal Anglians in England’s subzero temperatures. Practicing firing SA 80 rifles and 50 caliber machine guns, getting to know the soldiers and learning the tactics they use to stay alive.
Bullets fizzing inches from his head as they hit the ground on either side of him. It’s the closest he’s ever come to dying. After two harrowing and arduous months Ross returns to England. But there is little relief to be had as he meets the mothers of soldiers killed in the conflict. Then in September 2008 he goes back to the war zone, to see how the men he grew so close to are faring, to check how many of them are still alive. It’s a fascinating, horrifying and often moving insight into the brutal reality ordinary soldiers have to face in one of the world’s most dangerous and volatile regions.
