You know the drill:

This weeks book (yeah its barely been a week) is “The Joker” by Pete Scholey. A look at life in the SAS for over 20 years. This is the real SAS he is referring to. The British one. From the time of the campaigns in Borneo, all the way through to the Falklands. What was the reincarnation of the SAS after World War 2. To give you a bit of a background the SAS during World War 2 was a revolution and one of the first real Special Forces in the world. They started up operating in Africa, penetrating far behind enemy lines in the deserts attacking the Nazi airfields and other targets in small groups. Fast forward to after the war and a reformed SAS was used in the Malayan Campaign in the jungles of Malaysia.

The British SAS have long been referred to by some as the very epitome of special forces (though I wont get into that fight) and there has been a number of books written about them (including Bravo Two Zero). But the thing I like about this book is the fact that it looks at the comedy of the events that can happen in amongst all the hardship, death & destruction. The author describes some good histroy of operations (obviously the ones he can talk about) but with each of these decriptions come the funnier more light hearted moments. This to me was fantastic! I do enjoy a good chuckle and there are plenty of laughs to be had. I was lol’ing on the bus a number of times at some of the book. Though most of the funny moments are as you would expect with a group of men, boyish, childish humor it is still good to read that they are just like everyone else, real people.

A good read!