How the iPod became essential infantry kit

New Straits Times | July 26, 2009| | Copyright

Patrick Hennessey
New Straits Times
07-26-2009
How the iPod became essential infantry kit
Byline: Patrick Hennessey
Edition: New Sunday Times
Section: Main Section

ESCAPE in some form or another is never far from the thoughts of a soldier serving overseas. In Strange Meeting, one of Wilfred Owen's most haunting poems, the only escape from the trenches is a dreamlike death, a measure perhaps of the monotonous horror of the conflict in which he found himself immersed.

For British troops at present deployed on operations in Afghanistan, thoughts of escape will be nothing so extreme, but will lurk ...

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