Sleeping With Your Ears Open takes the reader into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Army's Special Air Services Regiment. It provides a clear insight into the rigours of the SAS selection process, training for war in Papua New Guinea, then in graphic and sometimes raw and brutal detail into combat behind enemy lines in Borneo and South Viet Nam. 'It is an engrossing soldier's story. One in which the qualities of the men, their mental, physical and psychological toughness together with their superb battlecraft ...
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Sleeping With Your Ears Open takes the reader into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Army's Special Air Services Regiment. It provides a clear insight into the rigours of the SAS selection process, training for war in Papua New Guinea, then in graphic and sometimes raw and brutal detail into combat behind enemy lines in Borneo and South Viet Nam. 'It is an engrossing soldier's story. One in which the qualities of the men, their mental, physical and psychological toughness together with their superb battlecraft, essential for operating in small teams isolated in the enemy's backyard, emerge as the key components for their success in these two conflicts.' Brigadier Rod Curtis, AM, MC (Retd) 'McKay has done what few other authors writing about the SAS achieve. He debunks the myths and lets the men who served in the Regiment tell it as it was. My children ask me what it was like to serve with the SAS in South Viet Nam: I will give them this book to read.' Brigadier Chris Roberts, AM, CSC
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Fine. Color illustrated softcovers. Fine. 307 pp. with index. A book mthat takes the reader into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Army's Special Air Services Regiment. It provides a clear insight into the rigors of the SAS seleection process, training for the war in Papua New Guinea, then it graphic, sometimes raw and brutal detail into combat behind enemy lines in Borneo and South Viet nam.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xix, 307pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. or black cloth in jacket. Light foxing top top edge. Personal accounts of patrols by the Australian SAS in Borneo and Vietnam, including some personal photographs from these secret missions.