David Spencer

978-0-244-60530-8 / 186pp / pb

“On a wet day early in 1975, with the wind howling across the open expanses of this once American air base, now home to the Army's Queen Division, I stood in the corridor outside the Commanding officer's office. The fear that had haunted me for the past twelve years had at last caught up with me, and it was all my own fault. I'd inflicted a huge, gaping wound on myself, in an act of the most extraordinary madness or was it desperation?”
Message from the Colonel is a story of one man and his struggle to accept himself and to be accepted by others. It is also a story of hope and love in the face of institutional prejudice, one which will inspire and encourage those who may follow in similar footsteps.