Publisher's Synopsis
When David L. Scholes joined the Territorial Army at the age of thirty-four, it was supposed to be a new challenge, and a fresh start. What David found in Iraq and, subsequently, Afghanistan, was a series of hopes and expectations that were gradually replaced with disillusionment and despair, as the dream of a free independent Iraq gradually crumbled in the face of United States brutality, the Iraqi insurgency and the failure of international leadership. Following his nine-month tour of duty, David became a civilian contractor with engineering and construction company KBR (UK) and remained in Iraq until 2006. He came to realise that KBR was not just a contracting company but a means by which the British government could appear to be reducing army presence whilst maintaining real figures on the ground, pretending to cut back and spending much more of the taxpayers' money in the process.
