Robert Lyman

No soldier should have been above the law in Afghanistan 

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Robert Lyman

Dr Robert Lyman is a military historian, who was once a soldier. His latest book, Victory to Defeat, the British Army 1918-1940, written with General Lord Dannatt, will be published by Osprey Publishing in September.

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