Spring 1991. As the guns fell silent after the Gulf War, a new crisis erupted in the mountains of northern Iraq: Kurdish families, driven from their homes, faced cold, hunger and violence on a biblical scale. 

The world demanded action and Three Commando Brigade Royal Marines was thrust into an operation unlike any other in their history. 

In Haven, Nick Pounds delivers a gripping, ground-level account of Operation HAVEN, the UK's part in the wider coalition effort to create a safe haven and return hundreds of thousands to their towns and villages. With the pace of a campaign narrative and the clarity of an insider's eye, he takes the reader from hurried warnings and improvised logistics to tense standoffs, fragile diplomacy and the relentless work of building security, aid and confidence, often far from the sea and far from familiar operating assumptions. Vivid, humane and meticulously observed, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the Royal Marines, coalition operations, or the real mechanics of humanitarian aid what it costs, what it demands, and what it can achieve.