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The entire print run of a highly critical and embarrassing account of Britain's role in southern Afghanistan has been bought and pulped by the Ministry of Defence at a cost of more than £150,000. A new edition, with some 50 words taken out, will be published this week despite continued opposition from within the ministry, officials said on Monday. Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan, by Toby Harnden, says Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, the most senior soldier killed in war since the Falklands, lacked adequate equipment – including anti-IED protection – and sufficient manpower to do the job his soldiers were asked to do. Thorneloe, a family friend of the author and commander of 1st Welsh Guards, was killed on 1 July 2009. The book draws from memos he sent to his commanders, including criticism of the British strategy. The Guardian has obtained a copy of the book, which includes accounts of how civilians were killed by British forces. It describes a farmer being killed by a Javelin missile at night, how seven civilians, including six children, were killed by a 500lb bomb – an incident described by the Guardian from classified US material passed to WikiLeaks – and how eight civilians, including five children, were killed by a 500lb bomb fired by a French Mirage plane called in by British troops. The book describes how in the summer of 2009 a British officer was mentoring Afghan troops who captured a six-man Taliban IED team. He later asked an Afghan sergeant major to see the prisoners so they could be tested for explosive residue, and charged, and processed. The Afghan soldiers described how three of the prisoners were strangled to death as the others watched. The soldiers said the remaining three were shot in both kneecaps and ordered to crawl back to their villages to tell people what would happen to them if they laid IEDs. British military police are understood to have carried out an inquiry into the incident but concluded there was insufficient evidence to take the matter further. Harnden said the British officer, Major Rob Gallimore, had backed up the description of the incident involving the captured Afghans. An MoD spokesman said: "The MoD has bought the entire first print run of the book. This action was taken because at a late stage the text of the book was found to contain information that could damage national security and put at risk the lives of members of the armed forces." He added: "Faced with the stark choice between compromising the security of members of the armed forces and their families and making payment to the publisher for amendments to a book which had already been printed, MoD had little option but to negotiate a settlement." Welsh guards in afghanistan 2009. Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britains War in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden. Having recently finished reading �Dead Men Risen� by Toby Harnden I wanted to wait a few days to collect my thoughts before attempting to write a review on this book. I really don�t think I can write an adequate review of this book but I will try, as the story of these brave soldiers needs to be read. As a side note, the book was first published in 2011 and initially the British Ministry of Defence attempted to stop its publication. For me, this was an important book to read to get a full understanding of what happened to British forces in Afghanistan and how things looked on the ground to British troops in their early deployments. The book catalogues the six-month deployment of the Welsh Guards in Helmand, Afghanistan, in 2009. The book also outlines the concerns of the Welsh Guards commanding officer, Lt Col Thorneloe, in regards to the lack of British aviation support, specifically helicopters, inadequate attempts to deal with the devastating threat of low metal content IED�s (improvised explosive devices), chronic undermanning, the flawed strategy of seizing territory without the appropriate resources to hold it, not to mention the continued use of vehicles not fit for purpose in combating the effects of IED�s. In fact, Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe was killed by an IED on July 1, 2009. In the Australian army; �The role of infantry is to seek out and close with the enemy, to kill or capture him, to seize and hold ground and to repel attack by day or night, regardless of season, weather or terrain.� The Welsh Guards were doing all that but they had problems with maintaining the areas seized from the Taliban. Once ground was seized Forward Operating Bases and Patrol Bases were established, but due to lack of infantry soldiers these gains could not be further consolidated nor the area around the bases be pacified for further civilian and mentoring operations. Also due to a lack of helicopter support all supplies had to be delivered by road using vehicles not really designed to combat the effects of IED�s. Again and again we read of these brave young soldiers, 18-19 year olds, getting out of their vehicles and sweeping and searching the roads for IED�s. Over and over again we read of these poor men losing their lives, limbs and minds to devastating explosions. At this stage the Taliban had developed and were using low metal content devices that the British sweeping devices could not detect, with fatal consequences. Questions were raised about why the British army was deployed into this conflict without the adequate resources and equipment to complete their mission. Questions that many families in England wanted answers for. The book provides details not only of the combat operations of these men but also the sad process of how their bodies were returned to the UK and their families. For me this was a powerful book, one that all politicians and chief-of-staffs should be required to read before tasking their servicemen and women into the next conflict. MoD pays £150,000 to have military title pulped on security grounds. The Ministry of Defence has paid publisher Quercus over £150,000 to pulp the entire first print run of a military title on security grounds. Having been passed by an earlier MoD review, Dead Men Risen: the Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan, by Toby Harnden, US editor at , was due for publication on 1 March. But all 24,000 copies are now being pulped under the supervision of military officials after it was belatedly decided that the book contained classified information which, the ministry deemed "could damage national security and put at risk the lives of members of the Armed Forces." The MoD paid Quercus £151,450 to destroy the freshly printed volumes. Publicist Digby Halsby, speaking for Quercus, said: "As far as I know, this has never happened in the UK before. The MoD always looks at books dealing with military topics, to check there are no issues of operational security which could bring danger to our boys on the front line. The system hadn't quite worked in this case, and the MoD felt there were issues that hadn't been picked up." The changes made to the book were "very small", Halsby added. Harnden was on the ground with the Welsh Guards in Helmand in Afghanistan in 2009, during which period their commanding officer, Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, was killed. Halsby said Harnden was a close friend of Thorneloe's, and had been working on the book "for years". According to the Daily Telegraph's own report, the book contained details of Thorneloe's complaints about lack of helicopters, under-manning and flawed strategy. Quercus will now publish a revised version of Dead Men Risen, approved by the MoD, on 17 March. A similar situation occurred in the US last year, when the defence department paid $47,000 to destroy a former army intelligence officer's Afghan war memoir. Anthony Shaffer's Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan – and the Path to Victory was about to be published by St Martin's Press, but all 9,500 copies were pulped. According to the author's lawyer, the army reserve had cleared the manuscript for publication, but the defence department later rescinded the approval. Alterations were made to the book before it was later reprinted and published. TOBY HARNDEN. Toby Harnden , an author and foreign correspondent who has reported from across the world. He was Washington bureau chief of The Sunday Times of from 2013 to 2019. He was previously with the Telegraph for 17 years, based in London, , Washington, and , finishing as US Editor from 2006 to 2011. Harnden was US Executive Editor of Mail Online and US Editor of The during the 2012 US presidential election campaign. He has reported from all 50 US states and travelled from coast to coast four times. He made several reporting trips to Afghanistan from 2006 to 2010, culminating in his second book Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Defining Story of Britain’s War in Afghanistan , which won the 2012 Orwell Prize for books, Britain's most prestigous award for political writing. Harnden was The Sunday Telegraph’s Chief Foreign Correspondent from 2005 to 2006. he has reported from , Afghanistan, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, , , Syria, Jordan, , , Austria, Italy, , , , , Colombia and . In 2005, he was imprisoned in Zimbabwe for 14 days after being arrested and charged with ‘practicing journalism without accreditation’. He was subsequently acquitted, deported and banned from Zimbabwe. Harnden was Middle East Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph from 2003, based in Jerusalem but travelling throughout the region. He spent much of 2004 and 2005 covering the war in Iraq. He was a "unilateral" reporter during the siege of Najaf in August 2004 and three months later was embedded with the US Army's Task Force 2-2 during the battle of Fallujah. From 1999 to 2003, Harnden was The Daily Telegraph 's Washington bureau chief. He was in Washington on September 11th 2001. He joined The Daily Telegraph in 1994 as a home news reporter before being posted to Belfast as the newspaper's Ireland Correspondent in 1996. He subsequently covered the and the of 1998 as well as numerous explosions, ceasefires, shootings, riots, marches and political crises. The culmination of Harnden's work in Northern Ireland was the publication of Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (Hodder & Stoughton 1999), which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide and is considered essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the Irish Troubles. Harnden was held to be in contempt of the Bloody Sunday tribunal for refusing to identify two confidential sources he had quoted in a 1999 article. He was threatened with jail but declined to break his promise to grant anonymity to his sources. The case against him was dropped in 2004 after a five-year legal battle. In 2013, the Smithwick Tribunal concluded that controversial allegations contained in Bandit Country were true. In Bandit Country, Harnden had alleged that collusion with the IRA by an Irish police had been behind the 1989 killings of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, the two most senior RUC officers murdered during the Troubles. The tribunal's verdict, reached after an eight-year inquiry costing €15 million, 'absolutely vindicated' Harnden's allegations 14 years after they had been made. Harnden was born in in 1966 and grew up in Marple, Cheshire and Rusholme, . After leaving St Bede’s College, Manchester in 1984, he was commissioned into the and attended Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He then went up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was elected president of the Junior Common Room in 1987 and awarded a First in Modern History from Oxford University in 1988. He received a College Prize for academic work and the Miles Clauson Prize for contribution to college life. Harnden retired from the Navy in 1994 as a Lieutenant after service ashore in Rosyth and Plymouth naval bases and at sea in the assault ships HMS Fearless , and HMS Intrepid , the minesweeper HMS Itchen , the destroyers HMS Manchester and HMS Edinburgh and the frigate HMS Cornwall . During his training he was an exchange officer with the Royal Norwegian Navy, helping to transport reindeer on troop landing craft. His final naval appointment was in the Ministry of Defence as Flag Lieutenant to the Second Sea Lord. He began in journalism as a theatre reviewer at the Edinburgh Fringe and as an obituary writer before becoming a full-time news reporter with The Daily Telegraph, based at its headquarters in London. Harnden has also worked for the Leith Leader , The Scotsman , the Western Morning News (Plymouth) and The Independent. He has been published in The Guardian , The Wall Street Journal , The Sun , Evening Standard , The Spectator , Literary Review , Naval Review , East End Life , Oxford Student, Conde Nast Traveller, Grazia , the American Spectator , Washingtonian , Soldier of Fortune , Zoo and Men's Health. A regular broadcaster, Harnden has appeared on CNN, PBS, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, Sky, GMTV, Channel 4 News and the Radio 4 Today programme as well as outlets in the Republic of Ireland, Canada and Australia. He has spoken at Harvard and Oxford Universities, Shrivenham Royal Military College, the British-American Business Association and the Hay, Lichfield and Dartington literary festivals.