Lethal shot: a Royal Marine Commando in action

✍ Scribed by Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial (Blackman : 2013);Blackman, Alexander Wayne;Driscoll, Robert;Hudson, Jeff

• Book ID: 100589464
• Publisher: John Blake Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Afghan War, 2001---Afghanistan--Helmand., Afghanistan--Helmand.
• ISBN: 1789461014

✦ Synopsis

Rob Driscoll, former sergeant with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, served tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. A born leader of fighting men, with the medals to prove it, he also endured three tours in Afghanistan. The third of those will go down in history as one of the UK military's darkest hours, for it marked the first time a British serviceman has been tried for a murder on the battlefield since the Second World War.

That man was Sergeant Alexander Blackman, Rob Driscoll's friend and fellow NCO in 42 Commando, and on the day in question they were commanding patrols within a few hundred yards of each other. Few men know what really went on that day in Helmand Province. Rob Driscoll is one. And in his book - with Blackman's blessing - he reveals all.

Yet Lethal Shot is more than a compelling insight into one of the most controversial rulings in recent military history. It is a clear-eyed account of life on active service with the Royal Marines, of incursions into...
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✦ Subjects

Afghanistan -- Helmand