麻豆社

Ahead of the publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq War 5 live has been speaking to the people behind the headlines.

Adnan Sarwar served with the Royal Engineers in Iraq and said "the whole war just felt like a film" because he had "never been in that environment before".

Weeks after crossing the boarder into Iraq, Adnan lost several members of his unit and noticed how it suddenly became "very real" that he might not ever return home.

Day to day, life in Iraq as a soldier was "just normality in somebody else's country" but had changed his life a lot.