 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Spoken From The Front for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Book Description
Real life voices from the battlefields of Afghanistan
Product Description
Spoken from the Front will tell the stories of what Andy McNab describes as "modern-day heroes fighting modern-day wars". It will recount the courage and hardship of British servicemen and support staff as they have faced the unique difficulties posed by the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan.
Andy will introduce and edit the book, but the interwoven stories will be told by those serving on the front line, in their own words. Their action-packed, dramatic, moving and often humorous testimonies will be told through interviews and diaries, and letters and emails written to family, friends and loved ones.
Spoken from the Front will be styled loosely on the Imperial War Museum's highly-successful Forgotten Voices series, but will focus on a smaller number of central characters who turn up repeatedly throughout the narrative.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An excellent book,very well written and gives a true account of what our troops are going through in afganistan.It is compelling reading,its a job to put it down once you start to read it.Reading the book really makes you feel proud of those young men fighting for us.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Spoken from the Front is not, the author says in the introduction, an attempt to give an in depth look at the war in Afghanistan.
Rather it aims to give a 'snapshot' of the fighting and conditions faced by our soldiers over there.
It should be best viewed as a 'starting point' and perhaps, given McNab's high profile and successes as an author, it can help in giving a much wider audience an insight into the true scale of the fighting that the soldiers are engaged in.
Students of the Afghanistan conflict will recognise that some of the more famous incidents are covered here, such as the attempted rescue of a soldier, who sadly turned out to be dead, by very brave men who strapped themselves to the sides of Apache gunship helicopters.
The epic drive taking vital new parts to a hydroelectric plant at a dam is covered briefly, along with medal winning exploits of a number of soldiers and pilots.
Spoken from the front does what it sets out to do - and no more.
It is an excellent entry point to literature on the war, and I would recommend Ed Macy's Apache and Patrick Bishop's 3 Para as good follow ups, which cover some of the big incidents mentioned in McNab's book in much greater detail.
Rather it aims to give a 'snapshot' of the fighting and conditions faced by our soldiers over there.
It should be best viewed as a 'starting point' and perhaps, given McNab's high profile and successes as an author, it can help in giving a much wider audience an insight into the true scale of the fighting that the soldiers are engaged in.
Students of the Afghanistan conflict will recognise that some of the more famous incidents are covered here, such as the attempted rescue of a soldier, who sadly turned out to be dead, by very brave men who strapped themselves to the sides of Apache gunship helicopters.
The epic drive taking vital new parts to a hydroelectric plant at a dam is covered briefly, along with medal winning exploits of a number of soldiers and pilots.
Spoken from the front does what it sets out to do - and no more.
It is an excellent entry point to literature on the war, and I would recommend Ed Macy's Apache and Patrick Bishop's 3 Para as good follow ups, which cover some of the big incidents mentioned in McNab's book in much greater detail.
Format:Hardcover
i read this book and could not put it down hope there is another spoken from the front book 2 out soon cant wait it will be one i read time and time again
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Dont Expect To Much
Although McNab has knocked out some cracking books in the past this one doesnt come up to scratch.
Ok, let me explain. Read more
Ok, let me explain. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2010 by JS Whitehead
Xmas Present
I ordered this book, as a present, it was delivered before it's expected date. The packaging was very good, so the present was given in excellent condition. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2009 by Andrew Pritchard
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Biography
- Books > History > Countries & Regions > Asia > Central Asia > Afghanistan
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
