'Sleeping with your Ears Open' takes the reader into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Army's Special Air Service Regiment. It provides a clear insight into the rigours of the SAS selection process, training for war in Papua New Guinea, then in graphic and sometimes raw and brutal detail into combat behind enemy lines in Borneo and South Vietnam.
Accompanied by personal photographs from secret operations, the stories in this book are told first hand by the SAS soldiers themselves. The reader will be with the SAS soldier on patrol where on occasions they were unable to move even six metres for fear of being caught. The five-man patrols were always outnumbered but never defeated: this book shows why these elite soldiers were able to survive.
It is an engrossing soldier's story. One in which the qualities of the men, their mental, physical and psychological toughness together with their superb battlecraft, essential for operating in small teams isolated in the "enemy's backyard', emerge as the key components for their success in these two conflicts.
