Operation Ark

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Read <em>Sunday Times </em>bestseller Pen Farthing's powerful memoir of the 2021 Afghanistan Evacuation whose story captured global headlines.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'Pen Farthing is still angry. It's understandable.' -- <em>Private Eye</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'Operation Ark was always about people and animals. Pen Farthing's actions were nothing short of heroic.' -- Ricky Gervais</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'Pen Farthing is a man who has the Commando spirit writ through him: he never gives up.' -- <em>Daily Mail Online</em></strong></p><p>_</p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>67 People. 171 Animals. Getting out was only half the battle.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>August 2021. The Taliban invaded Kabul.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The British Government was Missing in Action.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The evacuation was disastrous shambolic and deadly.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Pen Farthing refused to abandon his charity's staff or rescue animals. Operation Ark was born.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>He was branded a villain who valued pets over people blamed for deserting Afghans accused of risking British soldiers - nothing could be further from the truth.</span></p><p>_</p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'A compelling vivid and distressing account of what happened in those last days and a damning indictment of foreign policy failures.' -- <em>The Daily Beast</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'The most remarkable book. It's exciting it's mesmerising.' --</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Peter Egan</strong></p><p></p>