It was revealed earlier this month that the Ministry of Defence recently paid a large sum to have a publishing company destroy its entire first print run of Daily Telegraph journalist Toby Harnden’s book, ‘Dead Men Risen’, about the author’s experiences alongside British armed forces in Afghanistan. The Guardian reported in sinister tones that ‘all 24,000 copies are now being pulped under the supervision of military officials’. A controversially revised version of Harnden’s work is now available in bookshops, and you can read the author’s latest comments in response to this cynical and depressing story of censorship and book destruction here.