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Ross Kemp - The Afghanistan Box Set
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£19.99 (Incl. VAT)
Includes both series of the award-winning documentary.
Since
2007 Ross Kemp has been making some of the most powerful television
about British soldiers’ serving in Afghanistan on Britain’s frontline.
His documentaries are un-missable. Candid and brutally honest they are
the first on UK television to show what our troops are going through to
win peace in this war-torn land during the toughest years of the
campaign so far.
In the summer of 2007 Ross joins his father’s
old regiment, 1 Royal Anglian and, for the first time, heads to
Afghanistan. Ross is immediately embedded with frontline troops where
for weeks at a time he lives a soldier’s life as they fight a fanatical
and determined enemy. Off the battlefield he tells the stories of those
who risk their lives fighting the Taliban, stories of soldiers who have
lost friends in battle and the impact that a loss has on relatives back
home.
Ross returns to Afghanistan in the summer of 2008, to
the recently captured town of Musa Qaleh. This small yet significant
town is the centre of some of the fiercest fighting in the conflict. The
worst battles take place in the densely vegetated and claustrophobic
terrain of the green zone. He joins 5 Scots and 1 Royal Irish on four
operations as they defend the town from Taliban attack. In the final
programme Ross meets the unsung heroes of this conflict, young soldiers’
who have lost limbs to mine strikes who now face an uncertain future.
In the winter of 2009 Ross travels to Kajaki, a remote base in Helmand
where he joins 45 Victor Company of the Royal Marines.
Region 2
Classification 15
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