Mike Curtis

This is a step-by-step book on understanding what women want (and don't want) to hear from a man when it comes to dating and relationships. The author emphasizes that this is not a book on picking up women. His advice is: Be patient, and don't act like a jerk.

It starts with approaching a woman for the first time, when to ask for her phone number, the first date and those days when she is angry, but says that everything is fine.

A five-star rating is not enough for this book. It is excellent, and extremely recommended.… (meer)

This is a rousing good tale of life in the British Army with focus on the Special Air Service, the British equivalent of America's Delta Force. While the wars that Curtis fought in including the Falkland Island war with Argentina make exciting reading, he even makes the brutal training for the SAS fascinating. His description of the war in disintegrating Yugoslavia is mind numbing and even he who had seen some unspeakable scenes in war, found the hatred and atrocities he saw there almost impossible to behold. Six weeks behind the lines in Iraq during the Gulf War read like an adventure novel.… (meer)