Good to see the Guardian catching up with a story that was covered in the
Daily Mail 10 days earlier following an article in the Telegraph.
Also would appear to be an MoD mistake and not the authors if the Mail article is correct
But in an astonishing blunder a day before the book was due to be published, Armed Forces chiefs decided still more changes were needed on top of the 500 already made.
But by this time the publisher, Quercus, had already printed 24,000 copies, the MOD agreed to buy and destroy them.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox was said to be 'insensed' by the error and attacked the MOD's culture of waste and 'mushrooming costs'.