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The Operators: On the Streets with Britain's Most Secret Service (Pen & Sword Military Classics) by: James Rennie List Price: £6.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.59 You Save: £0.40 ( 6%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940 EAN: 9781844150991 ISBN: 1844150992 Label: Leo Cooper Ltd Manufacturer: Leo Cooper Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 206 Publication Date: July 30, 2004 Publisher: Leo Cooper Ltd Studio: Leo Cooper Ltd Sales Rank: 7267 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Boring and repetitiveThis book appears to be written by someone who worked in Northern Ireland but there are a number of anomolies which indicate they were not as involved as they claim. Beware the first three quarters of the book is taken up with extremely dull detail about special forces training which will be nothing new to you if you have any of the SAS books previously. Rating:  - And you think the SAS have it tough? This book was a real eye opener. I recently discovered a copy of this book and having read many of the SAS real life stories, did not really know what to expect. What comes across is an in-depth look at an elite unit that most people know very little about. A unit so secret that they use false names and know very little about the other people they serve with. The book covers in detail the training, selection and the gruelling punishment this poses to those involved. This really is a "make one mistake and you are out" mentality. That a unit as covert as the 14 Company, who actually take on and train members of the SAS, can have received very little published notoriety says a lot in itself. The members of these units ... Read More: Rating: - Highly Recommended!!Great read for any walk of life... It kept me gripped until the end, in fact I read it within a couple of days! My advice would be to buy it, and enjoy! Rating: - Twelve Months In The Life Of....Yeah, well ... Might be a part of the problem. The book REALLY starts in its last third, most of the pages before # 200 being devoted to an excrutiatingly precise, day-by-day, selection course. It seems to me that Rennie has spent very little time with the Det, and has tried to jump on the bandwagon of Special Forces, terrorism -related book circuit, by exploiting as much as possible his year with 14 Intelligence Company. And it shows in "The Operators" that Rennie has definitely very little of substance to write. The technical details, the detailing of almost every push-up session allows him to wrap up the 300 pages. Even in the last third of the book, which specifically relates to his months as an actual operator, ... Read More: Rating: - This man did the business!As a serviceman myself and having known a couple of people who have actually served with Special Forces units of one kind or another, it was with a fair amount of reserve that I started reading this book. Would it be Gung Ho, very 'Rupertish', or totally laughable and ludicrous like the book entitled "The Sixteen" written by an armchair warrior who didn't have a clue? (please see my review on Amazon.com). I thought I would give the man a chance and I was very pleased to be able to report that it is one of the best accounts of selection, training and follow up operations in the Northern Ireland Province that I have ever read. A lot of the weapons, logistics and equipment details I knew to be true from my own experiences in the Armed Forces but I ... Read More: |
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