Any one have any good books that they recommend on RM or etc,
i recently finished the making of a royal marine commando, wasnt a bad book, i read the french foreign legion by simon murray that was excellent, i have also just ordered 2 books by simon waterson, one called 30 days something or other and another 4 weeks to total fitness.
Has anyone read these books do they work and are they good?
I would like to know if there are any books or if there is anyone that wants to buy making of a royal marine and another book, i can also sell french foreign legion, if you pm me we can make arrangments or add me to msn.
Dan
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RM application 2005, PRMC - tore ACL and PCL ligaments.
Contimplating TA for a couple years before i rejoin RM
Contimplating TA for a couple years before i rejoin RM
I'm currently reading "Unscathed" by Major Phil Ashby, an ex Royal Marine/ML who worked in Sierra Leone in 1999 with the UN un arming rebels. The rebels turned on the UN and took hostages, but Phil Ashby and three western colleagues managed to escape through the jungle.
I haven't got to that bit yet, but so far its really good, he talks about his past, what he did as a kid, during his school years, into RM etc. I've just finished the chapter where he talks about Mountain Leader training, which sounds bloody tough
I reckon its a good buy, cost about 6 quid from amazon, definatly worth it.
Also from Amazon I bought "Royal Marine Commandos - the official story" Which is an old video (1993 I think) but talks about the history of the Royal Marines from 1964 up to the 1990's and has video footage from WWI & WWII, plus a little from the Boer War and all sorts from after the war. Pretty good for learning the basic history, but can take a while to deliver from Amazon.
I haven't got to that bit yet, but so far its really good, he talks about his past, what he did as a kid, during his school years, into RM etc. I've just finished the chapter where he talks about Mountain Leader training, which sounds bloody tough
I reckon its a good buy, cost about 6 quid from amazon, definatly worth it.
Also from Amazon I bought "Royal Marine Commandos - the official story" Which is an old video (1993 I think) but talks about the history of the Royal Marines from 1964 up to the 1990's and has video footage from WWI & WWII, plus a little from the Boer War and all sorts from after the war. Pretty good for learning the basic history, but can take a while to deliver from Amazon.
I just finished an absolute cracker -
"Commando - Earning the Green Beret"
Accompanied a TV series apparently, but I can't remember it.
Follows two groups on the last few weeks prior to getting the Green Lid, one an All Arms Course the other a regular troop.
Gives an excellent insight into the actual tests and training teams as well as the attitude needed.
I'll dig out ISBN number if your interested.
"Commando - Earning the Green Beret"
Accompanied a TV series apparently, but I can't remember it.
Follows two groups on the last few weeks prior to getting the Green Lid, one an All Arms Course the other a regular troop.
Gives an excellent insight into the actual tests and training teams as well as the attitude needed.
I'll dig out ISBN number if your interested.
Local library, it's up me parents house at the moment as the old man is reading it.
I'll PM ya the ISBN as soon as mate, seriously worth a look as there are bits of info in there about the excerisises that a late stage training troop go through that would be very hard to find out as a wannabee lol.
Read one or two other history orientated ones, in prep for the interview.
I'll PM ya the ISBN as soon as mate, seriously worth a look as there are bits of info in there about the excerisises that a late stage training troop go through that would be very hard to find out as a wannabee lol.
Read one or two other history orientated ones, in prep for the interview.
i knw this is a frequent question but while we are on the topic of interviews...is there a site besides royal navy, that i can get loads of info about history cos at the moment i know nothing!
i might go book shopping this w/end as well as shopping for running shoes any good ones out at the moment.?
i might go book shopping this w/end as well as shopping for running shoes any good ones out at the moment.?
RM application 2005, PRMC - tore ACL and PCL ligaments.
Contimplating TA for a couple years before i rejoin RM
Contimplating TA for a couple years before i rejoin RM
Yes but make that choice on the basis of your foot/gait type.DLink011 wrote:i
i might go book shopping this w/end as well as shopping for running shoes any good ones out at the moment.?
3 main different type of running shoe.
Stabilty
Cushioned
Motion Control
If I was you I'd go to a "proper" running shop and have them analyse your "style" of running, not just JJB. They haven't got a clue and will just tell you what you want to hear.
Also this site's good for info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marines#History
A lot of history and info about training, specialisations etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marines#History
A lot of history and info about training, specialisations etc
Its taken me a couple of years to get hold of this book written by Ranulph Fiennes, "The Feather Men". If you haven't read it TRY and acquire, its a good factual read.
Something for everyone especially the Elder Element who as I did could relate to some of the material, SAS, SBS, Royal, Oman Hostilities, Oman Police Chopper Squad, H.A. Bristol and much much more. It was suggested the book could only be written after the Death of "The Feather Men", the "Clinic" and the passing of, the thought to be Creator, Sir David Sterling.
PRINTED REVIEW.
Set in the 1970's and 80's, this purports to be a factual account of the activities of a London-based group of professional assassins, and of the efforts of another clandestine London-based group - The Feathermen - to thwart them.
The assassins, known collectively as "The Clinic" because of their meticulous attention to detail in the planning and execution of murders, were much sought after by would-be buyers of such services for their reliability, effectiveness and discretion.
One such client commissioned the Clinic to kill a number of men who had formerly served in the UK's famed 22 SAS Regiment. Thus it was that the Clinic and its activities came to the attention of the Feathermen (so named "because our touch is so light"). These men and women, operating covertly, are tasked with protecting former serving members of the SAS and their families. Though highly unconventional in their methods, the Feathermen are claimed to differ from the Clinic in that they consider themselves constrained to operate within the law; also, and in stark contrast with the Clinic, their aim is the preservation of innocent lives. The Feathermen as individuals are motivated differently, but share a common high regard for the Regiment though many have never served with it. The Feathermen were founded, it is speculated in the book, by none other than the founder of the SAS, Colonel David Stirling.
Fiennes is famous and much admired in the UK for his adventures and feats of endurance. He is also an established and successful author with several best-sellers to his name. Most importantly perhaps, he himself formerly served with the Regiment for a brief time. He claims he was approached by The Feathermen and asked to write their account of the cat-and-mouse struggle for lives which had taken place with the Clinic. Though making some startling, even contentious, claims, Fiennes' book is notable for providing many details and facts. Specifics as to locations, times, dates and much else besides are provided. It would be a simple matter, presumably, to confirm that such specific events occurred, if not the reasons claimed to underlie them. Nor does his book hesitate to 'name names'. The members of the Clinic, and their victims, are identified, and photographs of all of the latter also appear. I should add (as this is a review) that all is couched in Fiennes' fluent, compelling and thoroughly accessible prose, and he manages to deliver smoothly and engagingly this stark catalogue of atrocities and their grim details.
One or two of the victims were already known to the general public here in the UK before publication of this book, having appeared in the press and elsewhere. Major Mike Keely, MC, for example, is identified in Tony Geraghty's definitive history of the Regiment - "Who Dares Wins" - and his untimely death discussed at length therein. The circumstances of Keely's death as related by Geraghty (who bases his account on the official version given by the Regiment and as discovered in the inquest), are nearly identical to those given in the Feathermen. However, the latter offers very different reasons for why those circumstances arose, and the assertion is that it was not an accidental death or one resulting from misadventure. Indeed, several events quite widely reported at the time of their occurrence, which, though tragic, were sadly too common to excite much suspicion or curiosity, are given sinister new significance by Fiennes. For those readers who lived here in the UK during the time these events were unfolding (70's & 80's) there will be an inescapable eeriness in places as the true nature of events well remembered is asserted by the author
Cheers JWT.
Something for everyone especially the Elder Element who as I did could relate to some of the material, SAS, SBS, Royal, Oman Hostilities, Oman Police Chopper Squad, H.A. Bristol and much much more. It was suggested the book could only be written after the Death of "The Feather Men", the "Clinic" and the passing of, the thought to be Creator, Sir David Sterling.
PRINTED REVIEW.
Set in the 1970's and 80's, this purports to be a factual account of the activities of a London-based group of professional assassins, and of the efforts of another clandestine London-based group - The Feathermen - to thwart them.
The assassins, known collectively as "The Clinic" because of their meticulous attention to detail in the planning and execution of murders, were much sought after by would-be buyers of such services for their reliability, effectiveness and discretion.
One such client commissioned the Clinic to kill a number of men who had formerly served in the UK's famed 22 SAS Regiment. Thus it was that the Clinic and its activities came to the attention of the Feathermen (so named "because our touch is so light"). These men and women, operating covertly, are tasked with protecting former serving members of the SAS and their families. Though highly unconventional in their methods, the Feathermen are claimed to differ from the Clinic in that they consider themselves constrained to operate within the law; also, and in stark contrast with the Clinic, their aim is the preservation of innocent lives. The Feathermen as individuals are motivated differently, but share a common high regard for the Regiment though many have never served with it. The Feathermen were founded, it is speculated in the book, by none other than the founder of the SAS, Colonel David Stirling.
Fiennes is famous and much admired in the UK for his adventures and feats of endurance. He is also an established and successful author with several best-sellers to his name. Most importantly perhaps, he himself formerly served with the Regiment for a brief time. He claims he was approached by The Feathermen and asked to write their account of the cat-and-mouse struggle for lives which had taken place with the Clinic. Though making some startling, even contentious, claims, Fiennes' book is notable for providing many details and facts. Specifics as to locations, times, dates and much else besides are provided. It would be a simple matter, presumably, to confirm that such specific events occurred, if not the reasons claimed to underlie them. Nor does his book hesitate to 'name names'. The members of the Clinic, and their victims, are identified, and photographs of all of the latter also appear. I should add (as this is a review) that all is couched in Fiennes' fluent, compelling and thoroughly accessible prose, and he manages to deliver smoothly and engagingly this stark catalogue of atrocities and their grim details.
One or two of the victims were already known to the general public here in the UK before publication of this book, having appeared in the press and elsewhere. Major Mike Keely, MC, for example, is identified in Tony Geraghty's definitive history of the Regiment - "Who Dares Wins" - and his untimely death discussed at length therein. The circumstances of Keely's death as related by Geraghty (who bases his account on the official version given by the Regiment and as discovered in the inquest), are nearly identical to those given in the Feathermen. However, the latter offers very different reasons for why those circumstances arose, and the assertion is that it was not an accidental death or one resulting from misadventure. Indeed, several events quite widely reported at the time of their occurrence, which, though tragic, were sadly too common to excite much suspicion or curiosity, are given sinister new significance by Fiennes. For those readers who lived here in the UK during the time these events were unfolding (70's & 80's) there will be an inescapable eeriness in places as the true nature of events well remembered is asserted by the author
Cheers JWT.
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Apparently Bravo two zero by that mcnabb bloke is not entirely true, i have just bought a book by chris ryan called the one that got away, he is the actual bloke that was in bravo two zero, and he is the only one that exscaped its worth a read will let everyone know how it goes... goh i hated reading in school, wouldnt have thought so considering i have bought 4 books this weekend lol.
anyother books?
Daveb what is the green bible, i have my application form but never got that or do i only get that when i send my application in...(hopefully soon)
GGHT that book earning the green beret i have looked in loads of places for it on the net, where can i get hold of a copy?
anyother books?
Daveb what is the green bible, i have my application form but never got that or do i only get that when i send my application in...(hopefully soon)
GGHT that book earning the green beret i have looked in loads of places for it on the net, where can i get hold of a copy?
RM application 2005, PRMC - tore ACL and PCL ligaments.
Contimplating TA for a couple years before i rejoin RM
Contimplating TA for a couple years before i rejoin RM
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Try and Read,
Commando: Survivial of the Fittest
by Robin Eggar
Great read covers the entire YO course from start to finish, very funny in parts. As an interesting side note, Major Phil Ashby was in the batch which is followed in the above book.
I also definitely recommend Major Ashby's book "Unscathed" which was mentioned earlier, a very interesting and well written account of an amazing story.
K
Commando: Survivial of the Fittest
by Robin Eggar
Great read covers the entire YO course from start to finish, very funny in parts. As an interesting side note, Major Phil Ashby was in the batch which is followed in the above book.
I also definitely recommend Major Ashby's book "Unscathed" which was mentioned earlier, a very interesting and well written account of an amazing story.
K
