"Helmand province, Afghanistan , is now synonymous with a deepening crisis ... 52 Brigade, stationed in Edinburgh, were told in the autumn of 2006 that they would form the Brigade HQ around which the Helmand Task Force would be organised. As the brigade's tour of duty was drawing to a close in early 2008 their commanding officer ... took the unusual step of inviting photographer Robert Wilson, a commercial photographer, to work as a war artist, recording the life of the troops ... Beside his records of the landscape and daily life behind the perimeter walls, Wilson made portraits of the soldiers, the Afghan troops and children"--Publisher's information.