Last Team Out of Kabul
Surrounded by the Taliban
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2022
Summary
As a Royal Marine Commando, H. Collins served in Afghanistan in 2001 on combat operations. He took part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and returned for a second tour the following year. In 2005, now a private security contractor, he spent five years in Ramadi and Fallujah, Iraq’s so-called ‘triangle of death’. In 2014, H was back in Afghanistan, providing security for the Japanese Embassy in Kabul.
In 2021, when the chaotic evacuation of the Afghan capital began, it was a tough call…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781802471113 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1802471111 |
| Author: | H. Collins |
| Publisher: | Gemini Books Group Ltd |
| Imprint: | Ad Lib Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘H. Collins’s personal account of his time in the line of fire also tells the story of the West’s war on terror. From the battlefields of Iraq to the chaos of the scramble to leave Afghanistan, Collins gives gripping first-hand testimony of a Royal Marine Commando performing his duty in the face of terrifying odds … hard to put down’ * Robert Verkaik, author of Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist *
H. Collins
H. Collins served as a Royal Marine in 40 Commando. He later worked in Iraq as a security contractor, where he spent five years in the ‘Triangle of Death’, and Afghanistan; he was in Fallujah in 2005, and Ramadi until 2010. In 2014, he found himself back in Kabul, working with civilian security contractors responsible for the diplomatic security of the Japanese Embassy. He was there in 2021 when one of the largest ever airlift evacuations took place from Kabul.
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