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Wed 12 Dec 2009Gory but gripping details of frontline medics
BOOK OF THE DAY: MedicBy John Nichol and Tony Rennell Viking /Penguin, 408pp, £20: THE WAR in Afghanistan rumbles on, with President Obama recently committing 30,000 additional troops to the war effort. Listen to the BBC news, and several nights a week you will hear of another soldier’s death at the hands of the Taliban.
Naturally, the focus is primarily on the valour of individual troops or the (in)adequacy of military equipment; but there are other, often unsung, heroes operating on the front line and in bases not far behind.
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