'The best book so far on Britain's military adventure in Afghanistan ... Dead Men Risen will stand as a true, unsparing record of what happened there' - Patrick Bishop, author of 3 PARA. 'Dead Men Risen dilutes the saccharine perception of soldiering and replaces it with the gritty and gruesome reality of war' - Patrick Hennessey, author of The Junior Officer's Book Club. 'So vividly rendered that one can almost smell the sweat, the cordite and the acrid scent of fear' - Daily Mail. 'An intimate portrait of the Welsh Guards battle group in action ... In what may be uncomfortable and unwelcome reading for some of those involved, Harnden is quite unsparing in his description of war' - Sunday Times. 'Desperately moving ... Dead Men Risen is a serious work, far removed from the blood-and-thrills of the Bravo Two Zero school of military literary campaigning. Such books may grip but they do not engage. Harnden's does both' - Spectator. 'Has the flavour of an epic ... This is a rich and multilayered story' - Daily Telegraph. 'It's sometimes easy to forget that we are a country at war. This book serves to remind us that its chaos, brutality and horror is gilded with courage and honour ... a superb analysis of the bitterest fighting of the Afghan War' - Western Mail. 'Unputdownable ... No one who has read Harnden's book could fail to feel angry and bitter about the hopelessness of the task facing our troops in Afghanistan ... you are left feeling utterly unworthy that such selfless, dedicated, courageous people are fighting on our behalf' - James Delingpole.

Toby Harnden is a veteran foreign correspondent who has reported from all over the world. He has covered the Welsh Guards in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan over the past fifteen years. His last book was the critically-acclaimed bestseller Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (1999). Harnden currently lives in Washington DC, where he is the US Editor of the Daily Telegraph.