20 June 2024
Claret Press, who are publishing the highly anticapted book of Pen Farthing's extraordinary evacuation of 171 animals and 67 people during August of 2021 on the 8th July, have just released an extract!
Operation Ark is the powerful memoir of the most controversial figure of the 2021 Afghanistan Evacuation, whose story captured global headlines. As an independent inquiry later found, the government was “Missing in Action” with Pen caught in the crossfire. He had to steer his charity staff and animals through the dangers of a Taliban takeover and a political storm back home.
Ricky Gervais has praised the story as "nothing short of heroic" and Britt Collins from The Daily Beast as "“A compelling, vivid, and distressing account of what happened in those last days and a damning indictment of foreign policy failures."
Peter Egan has also called Operation Ark "The most remarkable book... it's exciting, it's mesmerising" and elaborated in a video on X (formerly known as Twitter). It's well worth the watch.
Click here to read the extract and pre-order your copy!