The Changing of the Guard virtual launch
Join Simon Akam for the online launch of The Changing of the Guard, where he will be in conversation with author Alex Perry. The event will run between 6:30pm and 7:30pm. To attend please email your RSVP to aoife@scribepub.co.uk. A zoom link will be sent to you ahead of the event.
The wonderful Fox Lane Books will be providing online bookselling for the event.
The Changing of the Guard
A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year
A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today.
Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this time, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable financial and human cost. Yet neither war achieved its objectives. This book questions why, and provides challenging but necessary answers.
Composed from assiduous documentary research, field reportage, and hundreds of interviews with many soldiers and officers who served, as well as the politicians who directed them, the allies…
