Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Dead Men Risen The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 6587e73a6d8c84bc • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Every copy of Afghanistan war book bought and pulped by MoD. 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 the Daily Telegraph, 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.