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He Who Dares - Recollections of service in the SAS, SBS and MI5 (Paperback)
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He Who Dares - Recollections of service in the SAS, SBS and MI5 (Paperback)
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Over fifty years having now passed since the Second World War
ended, it is surprising that there are any first-hand accounts left
that are worth the telling. The fact that there are, and that they
have remained untold, can only be ascribed to modesty and to the
fact that fifty years ago what seems to be the post-war generation
to be the exclusive province of thriller writers was to David
Sutherland's generation the only adult world they had ever known.
It needs someone to say: "You'd better write it down before it's
too late" or a grandchild to ask: "What did you do in the war,
Grandpa?" to get the pen and the memory cells into gear. David
Sutherland's war certainly ranks very high indeed in the thriller
ratings. If, at times, he errs on the side of modesty when
describing his own role and is over-generous in his praise of
others, he cannot disguise the fact that au fond he found it all
thrilling - while realising that ultimately he was extremely lucky
to come out alive. Much of the action is set in the Aegean where
the author served with the Special Boat Service, an off-shoot of
the infant SAS, raiding airfields on the German-held islands. This
is really thrilling stuff, made all the more moving by the author's
profound and lasting admiration for the Greek resistance fighters
who risked not just their lives, but those of their families and
entire villages, by giving their support. David Sutherland has
written a true adventure story. But it is one which raises that
age-old yet acutely disconcerting question: "When men have lived
lives like this, what am I doing catching the 8:15 from Woking?!"
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