Review of There are Roumers

BY DAVID CAMPBELL, BRITISH SOLDIER, DIPLOMAT AND WRITER

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and felt …that it was a near perfect commemoration of... KSK

His love and loyalty to his family speak for themselves. They never waver, not even when KSK is being firm about his mother's hopes of getting him home early (letter 155, a classic, which deserves to be anthologised).

KSK's two throw-away descriptions of the morale-boosting visits by the Prince of Wales are wonderfully comic.

It's clear he loves the girls and the girls love him, but there's nothing boastful about this.

There is a lot of incidental evidence (never laboured) of the mutual respect between himself and senior officers, as well as other ranks.  In fact he's a thoroughly convincing example of the Australian virtues.  The quality of the book is highly professional.