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The true cost of conflict - FORCED OUT the book review
Added: (Fri Nov 21 2003)
A very personal account that helps us understand, 9 November, 2003
Reviewer: DeborahAnne MacGillivray from Scotland, England & Kentucky (US)
Simon Bywater's Forced Out is a deeply moving biography. It is gently written. You get to know Simon as he goes into the service, and your knowledge of him and what he faces in warfare gives you an insight to what many of our young men must be going through today. It is easy for a country to send our young men off to foreign places, and then when the need for them to be a soldier is over, we detachedly presume, they walk away and it's all behind them. Having had members of the various wars in my family, I know that was not the case, but few reveal what is locked up inside them.
Simon's book gives us a very personal account of what he went through and how he could not walk away from it like flipping a switch. His writing is easy to read as proses, it is harder to take as a human being knowing this is not fiction but quite real. He makes you feel, understand and end result is you are so sad - not only for him but the thousands and thousand of young men now facing the same path.
Wonderful job, something everyone should read.
Reviewer: bootneck1 from derby, derbyshire United Kingdom
Forced Out is a book anyone can easily get into, its a book you don`t want to put down, you relive the times with Simon, sitting in a cold, wet slit trench, sleep depravation, and all the other hardships that come with the hardest basic military training in the world.The ultimate prize, something that cannot be bought, cannot be inherited, something that has to be earnt, the coveted,"Green Beret", and once you have it, you become one of a very elite, close knit family. I`m not going to give too much away, all I can say is, it will be one of the best books you`ll purchase, and as a bonus, you get an insight to Simons time in the Police force, but this book goes deeper than the Corps and the Police Force, it deals with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)which has gone unrecognised for far too long.All I can say is, "order your copy now"