Escaping the Ordinary
Lorna Windmill follows Jim Almonds after WW2 as he chases new frontiers in Ethiopia, Eritrea and the reformed SAS.
- Author
- Lorna Windmill
- Publisher
- Matador
- Price
- £4.99 (ebook)
- ISBN
- 9781788030670
- Published
- 2018
Escaping the Ordinary by Lorna Windmill
When the war ended and the wartime SAS disbanded, Jim Almonds sought new challenges. Windmill traces his post-war adventures: advising Emperor Haile Selassie, leading the Eritrean Police Field Force against bandits, and returning to uniform with the re-formed SAS in Malaya. Almonds tackled covert patrols in the jungle, then turned to boatbuilding in Singapore and Africa, handcrafting a 32-foot ketch and sailing it home to England.
This companion to Gentleman Jim shows how a decorated Special Forces officer channelled his skills into peacetime exploits without losing the spark that made him a wartime legend.
E-book. ISBN 9781788030670. £4.99.