Sir! Stop laughing! This is War!

Is the result of a soldier's  memoirs of his time spent serving in the British Forces and later as a mercenery training the Tanzania People's Defence Force underground tactics in a bid (which as we now know, was successful) to upheave evil dictator, and butcher of his own people, Idi Amin.

 The book is divided into four parts:

Part 1 covers  the story of  a young man during his training to become an officer. This part of the book focuses on 'Squeaky Boots' a rather notorious drill instructor and the methods he used to knock his trainees into shape.

Part 2 covers  the bloody war in Cyprus began by EOKA- a small band of Greek terrorists who fought for the expulsion of British troops from the Island.  Britain turned to the Turkish Cypriots for help and fierce fighting and a political nightmare ensued.

Part 3 covers  the Aden Emergency, a conflict between British troops and rival terrorist tribes which eventually led to Britain's final withdrawal from the Empire.
This part of the book details Lt. Col 'Mad Mitch' Mitchell's methods of dealing with the terrorists, and the military and political events that proceded British troops withdrawing from the 'Arsehole of South Arabia' with their tails between their legs.

Part 4 covers the unbelievable atrocities performed by evil dictator Idi Amin against his own Ugandan people. The author also describes the tactics used to train the Tanzania Peoples’ Defence Force, and the methods used to overthrow the hideous Amin and his sick sidekick Bob Astle.

 INTRODUCTION

     As the reader, if you are expecting this to be a novel, you will not be disappointed. If you are expecting this to be a history book, you will not be disappointed. If you are expecting a diary or a journal, you will again, not be disappointed.

     This is a fascinating story based on true events, and told in a cross between all these genres and will not let you down. What you are about to read is not any one of these things; it is, in fact, all of them. It is a cross between one real-life soldier's memoirs and accounts of his time in service to the British Army, sharing many of his own stories and those of his fellow soldiers, as well as personal recounts of a very monumental time in history.

     Through the eyes of our hero, Mark 'Mac' Hudson, we are privileged to an inside glimpse into some of the personal encounters our author, who uses the pen name of Reginald Lingham, experienced during his military career, as well as a compilation and dramatization of the life of a British Military Soldier.

     In this poignant, often humorous, sometimes silly, and other times extremely real and hard-core account by one who has lived through it, you, the reader, will be drawn into the world of the challenges, struggles, victories, and defeats shared by the brave men who fought in these epic battles.

The stories you read here will stay with you, long after you turn the last page.

Enjoy your journey.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I

CHAPTER 1   Squeaky Boots Jordan

CHAPTER 2   Squeaky Boots Legacy

CHAPTER 3      Squeaky Boots' Downfall   

CHAPTER 4      Civilian Squeaky

CHAPTER 5      Josie’s Revenge

PART II

CHAPTER 6   The Politics

CHAPTER 7   EOKA the Leader – Dighenis

CHAPTER 8   Operations

CHAPTER 9   The Escapades Of Mark 'Mac" Hudson, SOG

CHAPTER 10   In The Field     

CHAPTER 11  Rivalry and the Drink

CHAPTER 12  Cyprus, The Peaceful Years

CHAPTER 13  Christmas 1963, The Greek Reprisals  

CHAPTER 14  Cigarettes, Vodka, and Turks

PART III   

CHAPTER 15    Aden 1966-67

CHAPTER 16    The Crows

CHAPTER 17    The Aviary

CHAPTER 18    Aiwa

CHAPTER 19    Cemetery Valley

CHAPTER 20    Golly Hunters

CHAPTER 21    Terrorist Weapons And Tactics

CHAPTER 22    Energa Improvised Launcher

CHAPTER 23    Attack On FLOSY HQ   

CHAPTER 24    The Pac Vac Mine 

CHAPTER 25    The Mutiny

CHAPTER 26    Mad Mitch

CHAPTER 27    Grenade War

CHAPTER 28    Land Mines

CHAPTER 29    Paperwork Madness

CHAPTER 30    The Rain Floods

CHAPTER 31    Rescue The Jews

CHAPTER 32    The Rains Continue   

CHAPTER 33    Blow The Oil Tanks

CHAPTER 34    FLOSY Dilemma

CHAPTER 35    NLF Becomes Stronger

CHAPTER 36    Embassy Protection

CHAPTER 37    Kill ‘Shabby’

CHAPTER 38    Gerry AKC

CHAPTER 39    The Final Humiliation

CHAPTER 40    The Lessons

CHAPTER 41    Kidnapped

CHAPTER 42    Nothing Can Go Wrong...Go Wrong

PART IV

CHAPTER 43     Tanzanian Ranger Battalion/Training and Ops

CHAPTER 44     The Enemy

CHAPTER 45     Patrol Activities 

CHAPTER 46     Tanzanian Intervention Force

CHAPTER 47     Terrain and Weather Problems

CHAPTER 48     Alouette Tactics    

CHAPTER 49     Land Mines 

CHAPTER 50     Improvisation    

CHAPTER 51     Political Changes    

CHAPTER 52     Dar-es-Salaam. Tanzania, East Africa

CHAPTER 53     Accommodation    

CHAPTER 54     Idi Amin

CHAPTER 55     The Exiles 

CHAPTER 56     Astle

CHAPTER 57     Russian Exodus     

CHAPTER 58     The Rally  

CHAPTER 59     The Underground

CHAPTER 60     The War    

CHAPTER 61     Entebbe    

CHAPTER 62     The Press Murders    

CHAPTER 63     Clergy Murder     

CHAPTER 64     Amin's Final Fall 

CHAPTER 65     The War’s Final Stages

CHAPTER 66     The Baboons

CONCLUSION