Barney Campbell

Praise for Rain

The best book about the experience of soldiering I've read since Robert Graves's First World War classic Goodbye To All That. Campbell is a fantastic writer . . . Rain is a heartbreaking, brutal ...

Sunday Times

No better on-the-ground description of Britain's war in Afghanistan will ever be written. Rain is what Chickenhawk or, more recently, Matterhorn was to Vietnam. It's unputdownable

Evening Standard

Incredibly powerful. The best thing I've read on the war in Afghanistan . . . Some books have to be read - this is one

Sun

The best book about the experience of soldiering I've read since Robert Graves's First World War classic Goodbye To All That. Campbell is a fantastic writer . . . Rain is a heartbreaking, brutal ...

Sunday Times

No better on-the-ground description of Britain's war in Afghanistan will ever be written. Rain is what Chickenhawk or, more recently, Matterhorn was to Vietnam. It's unputdownable

Evening Standard

Incredibly powerful. The best thing I've read on the war in Afghanistan . . . Some books have to be read - this is one

Sun

The best book about the experience of soldiering I've read since Robert Graves's First World War classic Goodbye To All That. Campbell is a fantastic writer . . . Rain is a heartbreaking, brutal ...

Sunday Times

No better on-the-ground description of Britain's war in Afghanistan will ever be written. Rain is what Chickenhawk or, more recently, Matterhorn was to Vietnam. It's unputdownable

Evening Standard

Incredibly powerful. The best thing I've read on the war in Afghanistan . . . Some books have to be read - this is one

Sun