Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An
improvised game of cricket was often the circuit-breaker Harry and
his team needed after the tension of operations. He began a
tradition of organising matches wherever he was sent, whether it
was in the mountains of East Timor with a fugitive rebel leader, or
on the dusty streets of Baghdad, or in exposed Forward Operating
Bases in the hills of Afghanistan. Soldiers, locals and even
visiting politicians played in these spontaneous yet often
bridge-building games. As part of the tradition, Harry also started
to take a cricket bat with him on operational tours, eleven of them
in total. They'd often go outside the wire with him and end up
signed by those he met or fought alongside. These eleven bats form
the basis for Harry's extraordinary memoir. It's a book about
combat, and what it takes to serve in one of the world's most elite
formations. It's a book about the toll that war takes on soldiers
and their loved ones. And it's a book about the healing power of
cricket, and how a game can break down borders in even the most
desperate of circumstances.
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