It Must Have Been the Compo - Huss, Mike
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It was autumn of 1964 - with one war about to end and one about to start - although no one knew about that yet. So imagine you have just turned 19, a young soldier, a Staff Clerk by trade, who, having volunteered to serve in Aden to be with your fiancée, are given your ring back the night you arrived there! Furthermore, you are about to discover that the Army's maxim of 'soldier first - tradesman second' is about to be put into practice. Now in your role as a soldier, you are to be issued with a rifle and bayonet - no bullets! Because that nice Mr Healey thinks you might shoot a citizen of an…mehr

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It was autumn of 1964 - with one war about to end and one about to start - although no one knew about that yet. So imagine you have just turned 19, a young soldier, a Staff Clerk by trade, who, having volunteered to serve in Aden to be with your fiancée, are given your ring back the night you arrived there! Furthermore, you are about to discover that the Army's maxim of 'soldier first - tradesman second' is about to be put into practice. Now in your role as a soldier, you are to be issued with a rifle and bayonet - no bullets! Because that nice Mr Healey thinks you might shoot a citizen of an oil-rich state, causing all sorts of problems. So, much better a dead soldier than an annoyed oil-rich nation. Now, if your imagination has carried you this far, see if you can carry on as well as 'Jack', our hero of this first of a trilogy. See how he is to find himself, although only a private soldier, a confidante of generals, a correspondent with a prime minister, an instructor of RAF officers and a bogeyman for the top military policeman. It is also worth reading to find out how he is the only man to escape a poo shower of gargantuan proportions generated by a pyromaniac with 20 gallons of petrol, lots of used 'compo' and a hidden ingredient. Could you survive as well as Jack or would you go sick?
Autorenporträt
Mike was born in London and raised happily in Surbiton. He left the grammar school at 18 and joined the regular army straight from school. He volunteered to serve in Aden (now Yemen) so as to join his fiancée who had already been posted there. She gave him the ring back on the night he got there and his subsequent adventures in a war for two years can be read in the first book in this trilogy, It must have been the compo. This, second book relates our hero Jack's adventures for 6 months in a brutal training regime to become an officer following his recommendation for a commission in Aden. Subsequent service in the Depot (the now notorious Deepcut!), the Junior Leaders' Regiment and a tank depot followed. A varied career with a N. Ireland Training Board, a group training association, as Personnel Director and Tribunal Advocate resulted in writing the Dear Doctor employment law column in the Sunday Times for 10 years. This is his second venture into fiction with a third in the trilogy to follow.