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First published in Great Britain in 2019
© Alastair MacKenzie, 2019
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ISBN: HB 9781472833181; eBook 9781472833174; ePDF 9781472833167
Index by Zoe Ross
Front cover:
Main: the author on operations in Vietnam. (Author’s Collection)
Background: A soldier looks for roadside bombs during a British armoured patrol in County Fermanagh, close to the border with the Republic of Ireland, 1978. (Photo by Alex Bowie/Getty Images)
All photographs in the plates are from the author’s personal collection.
Editor’s note:
Imperial or metric measurements (or sometimes a combination) have been used in accordance with common usage in the various armies with which the author served. Likewise the names of units are rendered in accordance with the convention of that organisation.
Author’s note:
Surnames of members of Special Forces and British armed forces personnel serving in Northern Ireland have been removed for political and legal reasons.
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