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5 May 2011updated 18 Aug 2014 4:39pm

Afghanistan — a heavy legacy for Generation Xbox

Max Benitz plunges into life with a company of Scots Guards on the front line in Helmand Province. 

By Max Benitz

Spring arrives for each of us in different ways: the realisation that it is still light at six in the evening, birdsong, a freshening of the air.

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