Many accounts of the Special Forces discuss the seemingly endless changes of structure, name and role of the various services, but this account is rare in that it gives us some idea of how disruptive all of this was for the individual soldiers. You could return from a successful mission only to find that your unit was about to be wound up, merged, renamed or in some other way disrupted, and Wand-Tetley had to change service twice to ensure that he remained within the Special Forces world. We also get a reminder of how expensive many of the Commando and SAS raids were, with entire squadrons captured or destroyed on a regular basis.

History of War

As a history of one man’s involvement in the multifarious Special Forces that Britain employed in the war, it is an excellent account…
It is a most interesting account, and Marlborough should be proud of a man who contributed well above the average in the last war.

The Cameronian

Scott, a colonel in the British Army, has paid a great tribute to the fascinating individual, a larger-than-life character whose reputation as a leader will never be forgotten.

WW2 History Magazine, Summer 2012

Although the name of Peter Wand-Tetley would mean little to all but a few military historians, his extraordinary wartime career merits closer study as it brought him into contact with nearly the entire spectrum of Britain's Special Forces. The result is an enthralling biography of a unique man and those unorthodox units with which he served. A fine tribute to a man of whom it truly can be said, "He had an interesting war."

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