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  • Life in the SAS
  • By: Mark Wales
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  • Length: 9 hrs
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Survivor

By: Mark Wales
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Summary

Forging resilience

Finding purpose

Mastering transformation

How do you rebuild your life when you've hit rock bottom?

Mark Wales thought his life would end in a cornfield in Afghanistan.

Mark and his SAS troops emerged from that scorched battlefield 12 hours later, his mentor gunned down, his dream career now a nightmare. Over four deployments of intense warfighting, Mark watched the line between right and wrong become blurred. When he left the SAS he was adrift, crippled by guilt.

On a mission to rebuild himself, Mark turned his life around. He fought his way into the gates of a US Ivy League business school and into the boardrooms of top-tier international corporations. He spent years navigating failure in a quest to find new meaning in life. With every setback Mark counterattacked, discovering the tactics and tools needed to become more resilient, and to find happiness, belonging and purpose.

Told with gripping suspense, humour and touching warmth, Survivor is Mark's extraordinary life in and out of the SAS, a story of resilience and a testament to the power of transformation.

©2021 Mark Wales (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"A powerful, honest story of courage, redemption and finding purpose." (Bear Grylls)

"Searing, humbling and uplifting.... Mark Wales is a true inspiration." (Major General John Cantwell AO, DSC)

"In Special Forces it is often said the thinking is at least as important as the fighting. Through these pages, Mark Wales is shown as a thinking soldier. And further, a person of magnificent generosity, taking us to rarely trespassed ground, the battlefield within." (Chris Masters, Gold Walkley award-winning journalist and author)

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Great book - worth a listen

A really enjoyable book that excels because of the honesty shared by the author in telling his story. The fact that Mark himself does the voicing really adds to the overall experience. This isn't a book full of 'hero stories' from the movies, it is a book that describes the reality of war and the trauma that then follows/haunts many servicemen after the conflict is over. What makes this book really worth your time though is the reflection that Mark shares as he goes through the major shifts and pivots in his life, sharing the lessons that many listeners will find relevant and useful to them.

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Great book

Great book and really interesting story, his voice is flat and monotone. Other than that I really enjoyed it.

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Great story and excellent narration

How he lives with making that mistake every day must be tough. As soon as you read the section where he makes the mistake to emerge the green zone your like NO!!!!!!!!!

But he has bounced back, worked hard and is now helping others. Great read.

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Everything you could want from a military audiobook

What a book every detail you could ask for and gives you an amazing understanding of what these guys have to go through.
You won’t regret this one.

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Excellent

Loved this audiobook. Very well read, great pace and superb and interesting recollections. I found myself touched by the Epilogue due to ‘knowing’ the people throughout the book. Dont know if Mark will ever read this but i thank him for his story and wish him, his family and friends the very best.

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Ok

Wasent as expected but was very down to the wire with explanation of wat he experienced out in the war that still keeps going

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Great listen !

Unbelievable story. Great addition that it's Mark narrating. Highly recommend this audio book !

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just buy it!

A roller coaster of a book, if you don't laugh out loud and hold back tears there's something wrong with you!
The best book I've listened to.

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from the heart

A Honest True Story of the life of a Soldier and the effects it has on you your family your friends your brothers in green......

Mark Wales your book and honestly brother spot on..........

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GREAT LISTEN

Heart felt warmth in the context of this audible. Such an honest account of his battles in combat, and following his time in the military.
Just loved the way the Aussies say the the “C” word, used a few times in this recording. Loved it.

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