This book describes Mike Reynoldss military career from private soldier
to major general, a career that took him to the Far and Middle East, all
over Europe and to North America. It was a life dominated initially by
the Cold War and later by terrorist campaigns. It was a life full of
fascinating and extraordinary experiences such as commanding a company
of eight platoons of infantry recruits at the age of twenty-four,
jumping the rank of colonel to become a brigadier and, as a major
general, commanding contingents from seven nations in what was
nick-named the NATO Fire Brigade.