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 Soldier: The Autobiography - General Sir Mike Jackson
Newest Review: ... His father was a career soldier, constantly being posted here and there, and the young Mike was soon shipped off to a minor ... more  ... public school in order to ensure a stable education. He was athletic and bright and by his mid teens, due mainly to his enthusiastic membership of the school cadet force, had decided to become a soldier. He sailed into Sandhurst, breezed through the two-year course and in December 1963 graduated in the top five of his year. Then followed three years at Birmingham University where he studied Russian. He thought it might be useful to "know thine enemy".
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Soldier: The Autobiography - General Sir Mike Jackson: There and Back Again (1391 words)
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I don't suppose that there has been a soldier more identifiable as the face of the British Army over the last few years than General Sir Mike Jackson, he of the gravely voice and mug like an unmade bed. Whenever he appeared in front of the TV cameras, either as Commander of KFOR in Kosovo or as Chief of the General Staff a few years later dealing with the problems of Iraq and Afghanistan, he seemed to encapsulate the austere no-nonsense ethos of the British Army, with his calm matter-of-fact approach and his perennial red beret, symbol of his first love, the Parachute Regiment. Jackson retired from the Army in 2006 and 'Soldier' is his inevitable memoir, an ... Read the complete review
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