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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. ![]() ![]() 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. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
I didn't see a weapon in the other guy's hand. I didn't want to kill him. For a split second I hesitated. It was snowing. I was soaking and a million miles from home. I was looking at him, he was looking at me. Then, from the back of the trench, came a burst of automatic fire that cut past my head, and I pressed the trigger. Even by SAS standards Mike Curtis has had a remarkable career. Born and bred in the Welsh valleys, he followed his schoolmates into the coal mines at the age of fifteen. In 1979 he applied to join the Parachute Regiment. Enlisted in 2 Para battalion, he served in Northern Ireland and then went out to the island of South Georgia when the garrison of Royal Marines there was taken captive by Argentinian special forces. He joined the SAS in 1983. In Close Quarter Battle Curtis describes his gruelling experiences in the Falklands before focusing on two of his major SAS operations: first in Iraq, where he spent forty-two days Scud-busting hundreds of miles behind enemy lines; then in Bosnia, where he worked closely with all factions and later led a close protection team guarding visiting heads of state. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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