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Tim Rees's autobiographical account of his military service is to be published by The History Press on 1st August. The publisher's blurb reads: 'The journey from boyhood to manhood has rarely included such a 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. He even stepped on Lady Diana's toe! Tim Rees colors every experience with deep and often idiosyncratic observations that offer the reader a taste of the sometimes humorous, often arduous and, on too many occasions, brutal reality. Most importantly, Tim's stories are about shared experiences. Many of the men who shared Tim's experiences died aboard the memorable Galahad on 8 June 1982. Along the way, this evidence of synthesis and interpretation debunces the idiosyncrasies that have arisen in recent years about the Falklands and the fact that every photographer was often unpublished, and the fact that the Falklands