Sleeping With Your Ears Open. On Patrol With The Australian SAS

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Allen And Unwin
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 307 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Sleeping with your Ears Open' takes the reader into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Army's Special Air Service 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 Vietnam. Accompanied by personal photographs from secret operations, the stories in this book are told first hand by the SAS soldiers themselves. The reader will be with the SAS soldier on patrol where on occasions they were unable to move even six metres for fear of being caught. The five-man patrols were always outnumbered but never defeated: this book shows why these elite soldiers were able to survive. 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.

ISBN: 9781864489781