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Soldier Against The Odds - From Korean War to SAS (Paperback)
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Soldier Against The Odds - From Korean War to SAS (Paperback)
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Lofty Large is, quite simply, an SAS legend. He joined the army
aged 15 in February 1946 and soon saw service in Germany and Hong
Kong. By early 1951 the thundering engines of the Empire Orwell
were transporting him and hundreds of others towards their first
taste of war at the sharp end: Korea. He was wounded in action and
captured as a prisoner-of-war by the enemy at the battle of the
Imjin River. On his release two years later he was declared 'unfit
for further military service'. Lofty Large refused to give up on
his military career and defied the odds, passing the SAS selection
course and going on to enjoy a long and eventful career with the
Special Air Service. With that elite group Lofty served all over
the world: in the mind-numbing cold, in the blazing desert heat and
in sweat-drenched jungle warfare. He faced minefields , traps and
ambushes, as well as bombs, bullets, rockets and napalm. He is the
first to admit he also experienced a lot of luck, not the kind
which wins money in gambling or business but the kind which means,
when the smoke clears, that you are the bastard still standing. In
his introduction to SAS Soldier Against The Odds, Andy McNab says
Lofty was a survivor, 'but it's not just about luck. He is too
modest to say that it's also about guts, thinking faster than the
enemy and being willing to go further than they will to survive.
That takes courage and skill." This book shows that Lofty Large, in
winning his legendary SAS status, had more than his share of both
those attributes.
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