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The narrative opens with the author’s early years, family dynamics, and recurring themes of violence, defiance, and authority within a Glasgow upbringing. Through detailed recollections of parents, grandparents, and pivotal events, it builds the groundwork for understanding later decisions and the emotional logic behind commitment, discipline, and survival.","Killing Zone Harry McCallion  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © Harry McCallion 1995  \nThe right of Harry McCallion to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and  \nPatents Act, 1988.  \nFirst published in the United Kingdom in 1995 by Bloomsbury. This edition published in 2015 by Endeavour Press Ltd.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis book is dedicated to Bob T, B Squadron, 22 SAS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \n1—My Early Life  \n2—The Paras  \n3—The Recces  \n4—Operations  \n5—The SAS  \n6—The SAS II  \n7—The RUC  \n8—The RUC II  \nGlossary  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1—My Early Life  \n‘Ifa woman asks you to marry her, spit on her.’ The only words of advice  \nmy father ever gave me.  \nTo say I was brought up is like saying the Second World War started in 1939 and finished in 1945 and leaving it at that. I was dragged, kicking and screaming, through a time that only barely resembled childhood, into a premature adulthood. This story does not start with my birth.  \nI have only faint memories of my grandfather Henry, after whom I’m named. An elderly man with a white beard, he told me stories of the Great War during which he’d served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlandersand been decorated for bravery. He could have made the Army a career but chose civilian life after the armistice. He was a stern martinet with the strictest of moral views who was respected in the community, and this, combined with his fine war record, prompted many to urge him to stand for local office but he steadfastly refused. First and foremost he was a family man and, like many Catholics, he believed in a large one.  \nMy mother, Mary, was the third eldest of a family of five: two boys and three girls. From almost the time she could walk, she was the bane of her father ’s life. Where he was austere and conservative, she was a rebel, atomboy who preferred to wear jeans and a leather jacket rather than a skirt, and could hold her own in a fist-fight with any boy her own age. Confrontation soon came. Mary started to smoke at a very early age indirect defiance of, and probably because of, her father ’s warnings. At the age of twelve she walked into the house and lit a cigarette in front of him.  \nGrandfather, who would not even let his wife smoke in the house, was being defied by his daughter. His reaction was swift and brutal. He slapped the cigarette from her mouth, stripped her naked, hung her by her arms from a door and thrashed her with his broad working man’s belt until she was unconscious. Only the intervention of my grandmother saved her from further punishment. The scene was set for years of confrontation. If Grandfather thought that by whipping my mother he would break her spirit, he was badly mistaken. The physical abuse she suffered simply made her more determined, more obstinate and more of a rebel, characteristics she passed on to all her children, although it would be three years before she again tried to smoke in front of him. My mother told me: ‘At fifteen I  \nthought I was as hard as nails and able to take my father. I swaggered into the sitting room with a lit cigarette in my mouth. My father looked up from his chair.  \n‘“What’s that you’ve got in your mouth,” he said quietly.  \n‘“A cigarette. If you don’t like it we can go outside and sort it out.”‘A slight smile played on his face.“Are you offering to take me outside?”‘ “That’s right, outside.”  \n‘He sighed.“OK. I’ll just put my boots on.”  \n‘Like an idiot, I stood there and watched as he laced up his heavy working boots.’ She shook her head with the memory, then smiled.‘He kicked me out of the house, down the stairs, into the yard and back up again. I would never physically challenge my father again.’  \nThe realization that she could not overcome him drove my mother to seek another method of rebellion in the shape of my father, Allan. 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