ON PATROL WITH THE SAS

On Patrol with the SAS takes the reader into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Armys 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 soldiers 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 enemys 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