Favoured Irregulars
Andy Beckett: The Paras, 24 January 2019
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper
by Helen Parr.
Allen Lane, 382 pp., £20, September 2018,978 0 241 28894 8 Show More
by Helen Parr.
Allen Lane, 382 pp., £20, September 2018,
“... especially in wartime, as an extraordinary occupation, which should not be scrutinised too hard. Helen Parr’s book is, in part, an attempt to describe how this change came about, through the history of a once infamous, now mythologised section of the army, the Parachute Regiment. The book is also a symptom of that change. ... ”