On patrol with the SAS : sleeping with your ears open / Gary McKay. Sleeping with your ears open

Collection type	Library
Author	McKay, Gary.; McKay, Gary. Sleeping with your ears open.;
Call Number	PFS
Document type	Monograph
Year	2007, c1999.
Pagination	xxi, 305 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher	Allen & Unwin,
Note	Includes index. First published in 1999 under the title: Sleeping with your ears open. Bibliography : p. 297-298. On Patrol with the SAS 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.
Place made	Crows Nest, N.S.W. :

Abstract

Machine derived contents note: I The SAS trooper 1 -- 2 Cutting the mustard Io -- 3 The SAS patrol 28 -- 4 Borneo-the proving ground 51 -- 5 Papua New Guinea 76 -- 6 Fine-tuning 83 -- 7 Viet Nam 90 -- 8 Getting ready--patrol preparation 105 -- 9 Getting i n 118 -- Io The daily routine I4I -- II Getting close 158 -- 12 Getting personal 176 -- 13 Getting out 192 -- 14 Targets down, patch out 233 -- 15 The opposition 253 -- Epilogue 263 -- Notes 277 -- Bibliography and sources 297.