In Service

<p><i><b>In Service </b></i><b>is the tale of one person''s journey into manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war.</b> It is a journey littered with colourful anecdotes and diverse experience: from military training in the Guards Depot to Trooping the Colour; from academic failure to intelligence work in Northern Ireland; from helping Rudolf Hess out of an ambulance to being tasked with taking the Queen''s portrait. <br><br>Tim Rees colours every experience with profound and often idiosyncratic observations that offer the reader a taste of the sometimes humorous, often arduous and, on too many occasions, brutal reality of service. But, as Tim says, ''The positive effect is the bond of common experience I share with men with whom I served in the army'' - a type of bond that, in his opinion, is in danger of being lost in the modern age.</p>