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The Easy Day Was Yesterday
- The Extreme Life of an SAS Soldier
- Narrated by: Neil Pigot
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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The Easy Day Was Yesterday
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Publisher's Summary
From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian jail, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the edge and curses the miscalculation that robbed him of his freedom.
His childhood, marred by the loss of his father and brother, produces a young man hell-bent on being the best of the best - an ambition he achieves by being selected to join the elite SAS. He survives the gut-wrenching training regime, deployment to the jungles of Asia and the horrors of genocide in Rwanda before leaving the army to embark on a career as a security adviser.
His new life sees him pursuing criminals and gun-toting bandits in Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, protecting CNN newsmen as the US 7th Cavalry storms into Baghdad with the outbreak of the Iraq War and facing death on a massive scale as he accompanies reporters into the devastated Indonesian town of Banda Ache, flattened by the Boxing Day tsunami.
During his 24 days in an Indian gaol, Paul Jordan discovers that friendship and human dignity somehow survive the filth and deprivation.
The Easy Day Was Yesterday is fast paced, brutally honest, raw and laced with dark humour. The core of Paul Jordan's eventful life, it shows the ability of the human spirit to survive even in the direst adversity.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-06-2020
well worth the listen
loved the lay out of the book, loved the person reading it. loved it. thanks guys
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- Tom E.
- 31-03-2019
Oustanding best in its genre l.
Dunny at times, tragic at others would love to know what happened to some of the people in the book like the old man. Cant recommend this highly enough.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-06-2018
well worth the time
A very good true story, unpolished and real.
At times darkly comic with that laconic Australian attitude that sees so many Aussies take even the most harrowing experiences in their stride and just keep going if only to get to a decent brew or 5 minutes of shut eye before doing it all again.
Great book by Paul Jordan, perfect narration by Neil Pigot too.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-06-2020
Awesome book with a lot of laughs
absolutely loved this book.
Great accounts of parts of Paul's life and a lot of good laughs!
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- Matt Ostwald
- 27-10-2020
Loved It
You are a great human Paul. Loved it. Hope life is now filled with happiness.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-03-2022
Excellent listening
Amazing raw story of mental toughness. Excellent audio book and good mix of historical and recent life accounts
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- Michael Simpson
- 31-08-2020
What a great story of this man's journey in life.
Couldn't help but laugh at time and sad at other times of what he and others had to go through.
I would highly recommend it.
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- Murray Bobbin
- 21-11-2021
The Easy Day was Yesterday
Well constructed storyline. I found myself laughing at some of the antics Paul got up to, and teary eyed in others. Well worth the listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-12-2021
ok story not much about SAS
Was ok didn’t really talk about SAS much most of the story is about him being in an indian jail nothing to do with SAS or war stories. Voice over guy is some old bogan that sounds like he smokes winny reds
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- Michael Velsigne
- 30-06-2019
great story laxidasical reader
amazing moving story; however the read is a bit flat. but still would listen again.
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