Book description
A red-hot memoir from an Australian ex-SAS soldier, full of the action,
fear and camaraderie of combat. For the first time, an ex-SAS soldier
tells all: what it means to be a member of an elite group, the
challenges, the highs and the lows - and the sense of duty, honour and
brotherhood that never dies. In 1995, aged just 21, Keith Fennell was
accepted into the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the SAS. Over
the next 11 years, operations took him from the jungles of East Timor to
the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, from the southern Indian Ocean to
Iraq. What he learned about friendship, and about himself, changed him
forever. Fennell's missions forced him to stare death in the face many
times. From dodging mines and bullets in Iraq's Anbar province to
assisting the recovery effort after the Asian tsunami, his experiences
are shocking and confronting - but also inspiring. An unflinching look
inside the action and the fear, the tragedy and the bravery of one
soldier's service in the Australian SAS, Warrior Brothers is also an
edge-of-your-seat adrenaline ride with a group of men you will never
forget. Keith Fennell was born in 1973. At the age of 21 he joined the
elite Australian Special Air Service Regiment. He was deployed on many
operations, including missions to Afghanistan, East Timor, the Solomon
Islands and the southern Indian Ocean. Fennell also served on a medical
deployment to East Africa, was a member of the boarding party in the
controversial MV Tampa incident, and supported counter-terrorist
operations for the 2002 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)
in Brisbane and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Fennell left the SAS in
late 2002 and moved to the United Arab Emirates, where he was employed
as a special operations adviser. In January 2004, Fennell accepted a
position in Iraq, and he spent the next 30 months running operations
there, in Afghanistan and in Banda Aceh. In June 2006 Fennell returned
to Australia. He published his first memoir, Warrior Brothers, in 2008
and it quickly became a bestseller. He followed up with another
bestseller, Warrior Training, in 2009. Fennell is married and lives with
his wife and three children on the South Coast of New South Wales.
