Book review of: Eye of the Storm - Twenty fiver years in action with the SAS - Peter Ratcliffe

Overview:
This book is the story of Peter Ratcliffs carrer in the SAS, covering everything from when he was a boy and first joined, Northern Ireland, Dhofar, Prison outbreak in scotland, Falklands, and finally in the Gulf

Read duration:
Somtimes 1 hour per day, somtimes 2, took 1.5 - 2 weeks 434 pages in my copy.

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My Thoughts:
I thoroughly enjoyed every page of this book. For me this is the type of book where you just have to keep reading to see what happens.
Toilet reading turns into a 30 min event, losing all feeling in your legs.
I really liked the broad range of coverage of his different activities in the book, it is written in a very unique style which i found very easy to read and very hard to stop.
As i said before, the book starts with his life as a boy, and how he got into the SAS, them oves quickly through how he was in the Para’s and then enlised in SAS selection. .. now the book enters its stride and he details his life and what it was like in the SAS during the time he spent during his tours in Dhofar. after this he also covers how the SAS handled the prison riot in scotland, what he got up and what SAS / foces life was like in the falklands. His final conclusion is his coverage of the time spent in the gulf, which is also very good.

I feel this book has a real honest feel about it, and is not filled full of fantasy about impossible odds and amazing firefights, instead, just tells it how it is, and this itself is more than enough to keep you captivated for hours on end.

Rating:
10/10 - Excellent, anyone looking for an SAS book should read Peter Ratcliff’s Eye of the Storm before reading any other SAS book (Recommended)

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