Sniper One'One of the best first hand accounts of combat that I've ever read' Andy McNab We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark, small oval shaped package of misery the size of a peach April 2004 Dan Mills and his platoon of snipers fly into southern Iraq, part of an infantry battalion sent to win hearts and minds.