The Times war correspondent revisits his old regiment and reports on the daily ordeal of life on Afghanistan's bloodiest battlefront.
Beneath the lip of his helmet the colonel’s face had the grey luminosity and glowing eyes of sudden grief. “I’ve just lost one of my best soldiers.” His words, so quiet that they were nearly a whisper, could almost have been a question. The identities of two dead soldiers had come over the radio just minutes earlier. Serjeant Paul McAleese, one of the battalion’s most renowned soldiers, had been so recently alive that his death warranted more than a degree of incredulity.
Continues at: timesonline.uk - A month in Helmand: the soldiers' stories
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