Combat Camera

From Auntie Beeb to the Afghan FrontlineSavagely funny, no-holds-barred reportage of a BBC journalist's four-month stay in Afghanistan
May 2011, Afghanistan: Camp Bastion is under attack, the Sun's Defense Editor is about to catch the wrong helicopter, and a famous TV war reporter is missing half his kit and wants his shoes back. Amid the chaos, Christian Hill is preparing to lead his Combat Camera Team on the British Army's first big operation of the Helmand summer, inching through the IED-riddled fields of the notorious Green Zone, very probably getting shot at. A captain in the Media Operations Group, his job is to promote the war to the British media—and make it look like things are under control and getting better. This book  reveals the inner workings—and absurdities—of the military’s media operations in Afghanistan. A war memoir that draws on hundreds of field reports, it exposes the truth behind the headlines.
**Review
"A harrowing, warts-and-all account of the human cost to the British Army of the war in Afghanistan." The Daily Mail "A mix of humour and tragedy, bravery and bumbling. Drop the Dead Donkey meets the military." The Lady
About the Author
Christian Hill joined the British Army in 1996, serving as Troop Commander and later Operations Officer in Canada, Germany, Jordan, Bosnia, and the Falkland Islands. After four years he left the army and become a journalist. In 2009 he returned to soldiering as a reservist in the Media Operations Group, serving as a Combat Camera Team leader in Afghanistan in the summer of 2011.