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Daily Express - Friday December 20, 2024

This autobiography of the military service of legendary Gurkha soldier, John Cross, now one hundred and living in Nepal, is a reprint of a first edition in 1996, a second edition in 2015/16, and now there is this third edition. This is a tribute to the interest in Cross’s life and career as a soldier, spanning forty years, mostly in Southeast Asia and the Far East, through which Cross not only acquired an impressive command of local languages, but he also led at the Jungle Warfare School in Malaya, and concluded with service in the 1970s as British defence attaché in Laos. Three strands tie together the book: the Gurkhas, Cross’s unconventional approach to soldiering, and his service in the jungle. Much of Cross’s time was in the primary forest and, with it, the smells, sounds, light, colour, animals, and aboriginal peoples. Cross’s jungle has spiritual, magical energy, and the people of the jungle, whose languages he learns to speak, drew him farther into the deep jungle. Continuous.. Read more
Matthew Hughes, Brunel, University of London

"When our nation must turn to war, we turn to warriors like Leif Bangsboll to carry the fight to our enemy. Consistent with his Viking ancestry, in this detailed recounting we see the warrior’s journey through the adventures and tragedies that war throws at those in the brawl. Read Onward to Valhalla (revised title: An OSS Secret Agent Behind Enemy Lines) and remember those we have a duty to never forget."
General Jim Mattis, United States Marines (Ret.) and 26th Secretary of Defense

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Blitzwalkers

Drawing on the authors military service and deployments abroad into war zones, the book offers short stories with a twist of questioning what you you do in a similar scenario. This is to aid in decision making and also makes you ponder some of the moral questions in life and war. An interesting book that will appeal to many but especially in an educational setting.
NetGalley, Kevin Stabler