No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege
Adam Jowett
May 2018 · Pan Macmillan
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No Way Out: A Gripping Account of Easy Company's Brutal Battle for Survival in Afghanistan
In this powerful and moving Sunday Times bestseller, Adam Jowett pays tribute to the men of Easy Company who paid a heavy price for serving their country in Afghanistan. In July 2006, Major Jowett was given command of Easy Company, a hastily assembled and under-strength unit of Paras and Royal Irish rangers tasked with holding the District Centre of Musa Qala at any cost. Cut off and heavily outnumbered by the Taliban, Easy Company found themselves in a ramshackle compound, facing wave after wave of brutal attacks.
With vivid detail and gripping prose, Jowett evokes the heat and chaos of battle as he and his men fought back heroically over twenty-one days and nights of relentless, nerve-shredding combat. Bearing the weight of responsibility for the lives of his soldiers, Jowett led Easy Company through an extraordinary turn of events as they faced death down to their last rounds.
Hailed as ‘a brilliant first-hand account that crackles with action and brims with humanity’ by Patrick Bishop and ‘the Rorke's Drift of our times’ by war reporter Martin Bell, No Way Out is a pulsating memoir of modern warfare at its most brutal. Jowett's ‘superb account of the chaos and brutality of conflict’, as described by Levison Wood, makes for an unforgettable read.
In this powerful and moving Sunday Times bestseller, Adam Jowett pays tribute to the men of Easy Company who paid a heavy price for serving their country in Afghanistan. In July 2006, Major Jowett was given command of Easy Company, a hastily assembled and under-strength unit of Paras and Royal Irish rangers tasked with holding the District Centre of Musa Qala at any cost. Cut off and heavily outnumbered by the Taliban, Easy Company found themselves in a ramshackle compound, facing wave after wave of brutal attacks.
With vivid detail and gripping prose, Jowett evokes the heat and chaos of battle as he and his men fought back heroically over twenty-one days and nights of relentless, nerve-shredding combat. Bearing the weight of responsibility for the lives of his soldiers, Jowett led Easy Company through an extraordinary turn of events as they faced death down to their last rounds.
Hailed as ‘a brilliant first-hand account that crackles with action and brims with humanity’ by Patrick Bishop and ‘the Rorke's Drift of our times’ by war reporter Martin Bell, No Way Out is a pulsating memoir of modern warfare at its most brutal. Jowett's ‘superb account of the chaos and brutality of conflict’, as described by Levison Wood, makes for an unforgettable read.
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4.7
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Chris George
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April 29, 2020
I could not put this book down. It's an excellent read. But what gets me is, the doubt and apathy shown from other regiments, COs, NCOs is a disgrace. You're all fighting for the same country!!
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December 3, 2018
A great read!
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Adam F
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August 7, 2019
Excellent read couldn't put it down
About the author
Major Adam Jowett is a hugely experienced career soldier who joined the army in 1991, receiving a commission into the Grenadier Guards. He transferred to the elite Parachute Regiment in 1998 and has served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia and two tours of Afghanistan. Adam has found himself in appointments ranging from company commander at war to defence attaché with the Foreign Office in Eastern Europe. No Way Out is his first book.
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