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Description
In eighteen years in the army, Sgt Dan Mills had never fired a shot in anger. Within hours of arriving in Iraq, a grenade bounced of the bodywork of one of the battalion's Land Rovers, rolled underneath and detonated. The ambush marked the beginning of a fierce struggle for survival during which Mills killed a man with a round that took his assailant's head off.
During the next six months there was no let up; his battalion was under siege. The 600-man-strong battle group saw more war and fired more ammunition than the entire 25,000-strong British invasion force. And one young Private, Johnson Beharry, became the first living recipient of the Victoria Cross in thirty-six years.
But the battalion refused to give an inch. And this is the full dramatic story of one of the most heroic British army stands since Rorke's Drift.
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