I have just finished Bill Ash's  book, Under the wire, and wondered if you have any good recommendations that are auto biog's that I should read.

Tim

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First Light

Forgotten Soldier

FS is highly recommended. Very hard to put down and nice to see it from the other side.

if you want the best Bio book then read, Once a warrior King.

Its all about a tour of duty of a green beret officer, he is straight out of school, and only around 21, and in charge of a special forces unit that trains locals into a militia, which are his to command, he has total control over all military action in his region, and is also the law. and his region is huge, like the size of sounthen england.

amazinging interesting how so much power was placed in the hands of such young men and how they delt with it.

OK.

I've ordered Frank's Auto and the Warrior King and Forgotten Soldier.

In the same vein, Some other Rainbow was a good read, the dual story of John McCarthy and Jill Morell.

As such I also ordered Alan Johnston's book Kidnapped. Should keep me going.

BTW, there was a film made of the downed US pilot in the Balkans War, Behind Enemy Lines with Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman- was there ever a book?

Cheers

Tim

Blackwater

Not quite auto biog but it just shows you how bent the American political system is when it comes to handing out contracts, killing locals/there own servicemen and sacrificing blokes so they can lay siege to cities/towns. Those buggers have got a lot to answer for

The money is good though.....

Really, so much to seek, plan, experience, and read about that I could browse Amazon all day!

Must get away this Xmas somewhere warmer and interesting. Maybe a weeks trekking in the Anti Atlas to blow the cobwebs away - too much snow in the High Atlas in Dec / Jan for trekking.

Tim

I would second The Forgotten Soldier.

I've just read "Not Buying It" which is a thought provoking read. It even has a section about Mountain Bikers and their place in a consumer economy.

"BTW, there was a film made of the downed US pilot in the Balkans War, Behind Enemy Lines with Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman- was there ever a book?"

I believe that's Basher Five-Two by Scott O'Grady

he sued the film makers

 Tim

     2 of the best books I've come across

  Chicken Hawk by Robert Mason...biography of a Huey pilot in the vietnam war....couldn't put it down

    or

 Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills by Charles Henderson....biography of one Carlos Hathcock the highest rated marine sniper in vietnam....not all gung ho crap it shows how really awful that conflict was and just how dedicated some of the individuals who fought there could be...again a great book

 cheers