Sleeping with Your Ears Open : On Patrol with the Australian SAS

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 Vietnam. 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. Hardcover First Edition

xix, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. #0621 FINE  Australia. Army. Special Air Service Regiment.  |  Australia. Army. Special Air Service Regiment — Officers.  |  Australia. Army — Commando troops.