Biting the Bullet - Living with the SAS

[ArcticWolf]

When Jenny Simpson married she joined a unique band of women - the SAS wives - and entered a world of secrecy and danger that few outside if could begin to imagine.

Biting the Bullet reveals the rivalry and betrayal behind the bravado and camraderie, the intense pressure that so often leads to domestic violence and marital break-up, a life that is at once exhausting and exhilarating.

It is also the story of a passionate and fiery relationship that survived against incredible odds, an enduring love affair that kept two people emotionally inseparable from the small-town world of Hereford to the jungles of Belize, the bleak mountain-tops of the Falklands and the deserts of Iraq.

I can highly recommend both the men and women on this forum to read this book. It tells the true story of a married couple, and there are a lot of facts about the husband's missions in there that gives a good insight into what it was really like for him during those missions.

Obviously, since it was written by his wife, we get the full view and get to see what it was like from her perspective too, staying behind at home and listening to sometimes very ignorant people remarking on the wars her husband was fighting, and whose friends gave their lives for.

This is a rare book. I've not come across any other written by a serviceman's wife. Perhaps I've just not been looking hard enough... I came across this book many years ago, and have re-read it many times since. Partly because it's got my kind of sense of humour (blacker than the night itself), but also because it's just fascinating. It was also the book that made me decide to never ever get involved with a man actively serving...

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[Coinnach]

Thanks for the recommendation ArcticWolf, I will add this to my every extending list of must reads. Also welcome back and I hope all is well.

[ArcticWolf]

All is well that ends well... and we haven't seen the end yet. Thanks for your concern.

This book really is worth the read. Jenny Simpson is one of those women that deserve praise for standing by her man no matter what.

[Martin Scott]

Other half has read it, I suppose I will have to now