The easy day was yesterday
Subtitle: the extreme life of an SAS soldier
By: Paul Jordan
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newport, N.S.W
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781921941887
Subjects: Soldiers; Biography; Australia. Australian Army. Special Air Service Regiment; Australia
Description: From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian gaol, Paul Jordan reflects on a lilfe lived on the edge and curses the miscalculation that robbed himof his freedom. His childhood amrred by the loss of his father and brother, produces a young man hell bent on being the best - an ambition he achieves by being selected to join the elite SAS. He survives the gut-wrenching training regime, deployment to the jungles of Asia and the horrors of genocide in Rwanda before leaving the army to embark on a carrer as a securit adviser. His new life sees him pursuing criminals and gun-toting bandits in Papua New Guinea and the Solomns, protecting CNN newsmen as the US 7th Cavalry storms into Baghdad with the outbreak of the Iraq War, and facing death on massive scal as he accompanies reporters into the devastated Indonesian town of Banda Aceh, flattened by the Boxing Day tsunami. -- back cover.
Notes: Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Breaking Point; title: Bugger; title: Interrogation; title: Standby Patrol; title: Nightmare Day One; title: SAS Selection Course; title: Nightmare Day Two; title: Growing Up; title: Nightmare Day Three; title: Nightmare Day Four; title: Nightmare Day Five; title: Nightmare Day Six; title: Steven; title: Nightmare Days Seven and Eight; title: Nightmare Days Nine and Ten; title: The Last Frontier; title: Nightmare Day Eleven; title: Nightmare Day Twelve; title: Nightmare Day Thirteen; title: Deployed to hell; title: Nightmare Day Fourteen; title: Nightmare Day Fifteen; title: Nightmare Day Sixteen; title: Nightmare Days Seventeen and Eighteen; title: Nightmare Day Nineteen; title: Prepared to Die; title: Nightmare Days Twenty and Twenty-one; title: Last Days 29; title: The Iraq War 2003; title: Freedom Beckons; title: Asian Tsunami; title: Home.