Ballinger, Adam
The Quiet Soldier
- ISBN 13:
- 9781839012655
- author:
- Ballinger, Adam
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Lume Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 238
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.4 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Biography, Military, Nonfiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
At twenty-six, Adam Ballinger had a good degree, a fiancée, and a well-paid job. Yet he chose to risk it all for the gruelling SAS Selection course, with a better than ninety per cent chance of failing to win the toughest badge in the British Army. The months that followed were marked by combat patrols, press-ups, punishing runs, and hostile interrogation. Ballinger's experiences revealed that who you think you are and what the Army wants you to be can be very different things. This account of the varied characters who commit so much to training for the SAS is remarkable for its unromantic authenticity and objective attempt to find out why people do it. The result, Ballinger discovered, was a badge that bore little relation to either his original self or what the Army wanted him to be.
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