Fighting John Watson's War

• Afghanistan: A Tour of Duty – Captain Alexander Allan
• With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic Diary - Chris Allen
• No Worse Enemy – Ben Anderson
• An Ordinary Soldier – Doug Beattie MC
• Task Force Helmand – Doug Beattie MC
• Six Months Without Sundays: The Scots Guards in Afghanistan – Max Benitz
• Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan – Patrick Bishop
• Callsign Hades – Patrick Bury (read my review here)
• In Foreign Fields: Heroes of Iraqand Afghanistan – Dan Collins
• The Killing Zone – Lt Col Richard Dorney
• A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan – James Fergusson
• Fire Strike 7/9 – Paul ‘Bommer’ Grahame & Damien Lewis
• Frontline: A Soldier’s Story – Alex Green
• Operation Snakebite: The Explosive True Story of an Afghan – Stephen Grey
• Dead Men Risen – Tony Harnden
• It's All About Treo: Life, Love and War with the World's Bravest Dog - Dave Heyhoe
• The Junior Officer's Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars - Patrick Hennessey
• Kandak - Patrick Hennessey
• Fighting Season - Graham Lee
• Apache Dawn – Damien Lewis
• Company Commander - Major Russell Lewis MC
• Apache – Ed Macy
• Hellfire – Ed Macy
• Men of Honour – Patrick Mercer (this is a novel but written with insider knowledge)
• Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British BattleGroup Under Siege – Sgt Dan Mills
• Wearing the Green Beret – Jake Olafsen
• Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with Britain’s Elite BombDisposal Unit – Sean Rayment
• Blogging from the Battlefield – Major Paul Smyth
• 3 Commando Brigade – Ewen Southby-Tailyour
• 3 Commando: Helmand Assault – Ewen Southby-Tailyour
• Danger Close – Colonel Stuart Tootal
• Point Man – Mark Townsend
• Helmand: The Diaries of Frontline Soldiers – Osprey Publishing

plus

• The Official ARRSE Guide to the British Army – Major Des Astor
• The Oxford History of the British Army - Chandler & Beckett
• Leading from the Front – General Sir Richard Dannatt
• The Armed Forces of the United Kingdom 2010-2011 - Charles Heyman
• The British Army: A Pocket Guide 2012-2013 – Charles Heyman
• Soldiers – Richard Holmes
• Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 – Geoff Lumley
• Royal Marines Commandos – John Parker
• Inside the SAS - Craig Philip & Alex Taylor

• The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06 – Ed. Michael Clarke
• Understanding War in Afghanistan – Joseph Collin
• War Against the Taliban - Sandy Gall
• Arms of Little Value: The Challenge of Insurgency and GlobalInstability in the Twenty-First Century – G.L. Lamborn
• 9/11 and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - Lansford
• Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan - Frank Ledwidge
• Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths - Jonathan Steele
• Military Adaptation in Afghanistan - published by Stanford Security Studies
• Frontline Afghanistan: The Devil’s Playground – Mike Ryan

• Ben Anderson’s footage of Afghanistan on his website here
• Our War – Life at War captured through the eyes of the soldiers (BBC)
• Commando – On the Front Line (ITV)
• Ross Kemp In Afghanistan (Sky)
• Ross Kemp Return to Afghanistan (Sky)
• Ross Kemp Back on the Frontline (Sky)
• Royal Marines Mission Afghanistan (A Chris Terrill Film)

• British Army Website
• ARRSE (ARmy Rumour SErvice)
• ARRSEPedia - the ARRSE wiki
• Wikipedia – especially War in Afghanistan (2001-Present), British Casualties in Afghanistan and Operation Herrick (this gives a good overview of what has been going on to base proper research on)
• British Government details of UK Operations in Afghanistan here