Doran, Geordie with Morgan, Mike (foreword by Chris Ryan), — GEORDIE - SAS Fighting Hero.

Spellmount, Stroud, 2011, trade paperback, xx, 252pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial wrappers, Geordie enlisted as a private soldier in 1946, that start of a career of active service in Germany, Cyprus, the Korean War and Suez, he became an expert in jungle warfare in Malaya and in Borneo, as well as on key special operations in the deserts of Oman and Yemen, and Colonel Gaddafi's Libya. After returning to England in the early 1970s, a serious road accident curtailed his soldiering career but he found a new role as a permanent staff instructor with 23 SAS (TA), leaving the SAS in 1972 but not settling into civilian life and he found himself back as a storeman in the SAS Quartermaster's stores, a job which lasted another 12 years during which time he equipped many famous SAS characters for their clandestine missions, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,