Heroes Of The SAS: True Stories Of The British Army's Elite Special Forces Regiment

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He doesn't suffer from PTSD, hardly knows of any former colleagues who do and says the only sleepless nights he has had were over an incident in the Falklands when his position was strafed by an Argentinian fighter plane.

This is a demanding phase of a SAS Reserves training, with the emphasis on individuals assimilating new skills, while under physical and mental pressure.I enjoyed the story telling of these characters and what happened leading up to Desert Storm. This book is well written, well researched and uses fictitious names (obviously). I enjoyed the stories about Cambodia, Kuwait and even operations on the Australian mainland. NetGalley, Liz Pegler He was contemptuous of mid-level military bureaucracy, referring to it as "layer upon layer of fossilized shit."

How he managed to bypass this bureaucracy and start the SAS is the story of this book. The book is well written and easy to read. It does not go beyond WWII, except to explain that the SAS was disbanded from 1945-47. It still exists today. Mr Craighead, who was also awarded an MBE by the late Queen earlier in his SAS career, says the book is a metaphorical story about a wolf who becomes a sheep dog. You can look through a lot of World War II history books written between 1945 and the end of the 20th century and not find more than a mention of the S.A.S. This group consisted of a small number of British Army soldiers (later linked with other countries' forces) that were primarily functioning in North Africa during the time the Allies were battling with Rommel to control this vast territory. My friend's brother, who is still serving, is typical: while still at school he would steal a car to drive home after a night on the tiles. This is an excellent book all about survival. That is the survival of the human spirit against adversity. When the chips were down Andy and the other men with him had to escape and evade detection across hundreds of miles of open desert in the extreme cold before they could get to safety. And they weren’t really equipped for that kind of harsh weather.

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