Chris Townsend

The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley . Wesley Morgan.

The gunfire had stopped. On July 10, 2017, the rubble-strewn streets of Mosul were once again alive and full of cheerful shouts.

A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War . Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-Sieng Hsieh.

It’s not true that your life flashes before your eyes when faced with death. For me it was the books I’d read and the characters that had left an...