Pilgrim Days - A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS

''We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.'' If there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond, it was Alastair MacKenzie. In a career spanning 30 years, MacKenzie served uniquely with the New Zealand Army in Vietnam, the British Parachute Regiment, the British Special Air Service (SAS), the South African Defence Force''s famed ParaBats, the Sultan of Oman''s Special Forces and a host of private security agencies and defence contractors. MacKenzie lived the soldier''s life to the full as he journeyed ''the Golden Road to Samarkand''. This extraordinary new work from the author of Special Force: The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) vividly documents the experience of infantry combat in Vietnam, life with the Paras, the tempo of selection for UK Special Forces, covert SAS operations in South Armagh and SAS Counter Terrorist training on the UK mainland, vehicle-mounted Pathfinder Brigade insertions into Angola and maritime counter-terrorism work in Oman.>

Product details

• Authors: Alastair MacKenzie, Dr Alastair MacKenzie
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781472833198
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-3319-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Military history: post WW2 conflicts, HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War, HISTORY / Military / Special Forces, HISTORY / Military / Veterans, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, Modern warfare, Special & elite forces, Special and elite forces, True war and combat stories, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General