Steve Brown is a 27 year veteran of the British Army, serving in the Parachute Regiment from 1993-2020. During his career he completed six tours of duty with 3 PARA and the Pathfinders, worked in arctic, desert and jungle environments, and spent 9 years teaching combat survival to servicemen and women around the world.
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Autobiography - "Regimental"
Steve Brown joined the army in 1993 as a troubled teenager and left as a respected sergeant-major in 2020. After passing the gruelling Parachute Regiment recruit process and selection for the elite Pathfinder Platoon he travelled the world, deployed on multiple operations, and pushed himself beyond breaking point, both physically and mentally. His story provides a unique insight into Britain's elite airborne forces, including their training, ethos, and indomitable mindset. From desert to Arctic, jungle to delta, urban to rural, he's experienced some of the most hostile places on Earth. This autobiography covers the extreme highs and lows of a veteran's life with tales of humour, humility, hardship, and heroics.
Non-Fiction - "You'd Be Nuts Too!"
When your two earliest memories are of your older brother being thrown against a wall by a drug-crazed lunatic and the slaying of your pet dog, it’s not a good start. When you’ve been shot at, rocketed, bombed, charged by elephants, had a parachute malfunction, and been chased by a six-foot-eleven wrestling legend, there’s bound to be some psychological issues.
Unable to defend his mother as a young boy, Steve Brown dreamed of the day he’d be big and strong enough to protect his family. After a disappointing adolescence where he was expelled from school and became involved in drugs and crime, he was shown leniency by a Juvenile Court Judge when he mentioned an aspiration to become a soldier. Refocusing himself, he joined the famous Parachute Regiment of the British Army and successfully completed the arduous six-month training course to become a paratrooper, learning along the way what it really meant to be tough through harsh personal experience. Steve spent the next twenty-seven years serving in the Parachute Regiment and Pathfinders, travelling the world, meeting people, listening to their stories, and creating his own. Completing operational tours in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Macedonia, Afghanistan, and Iraq he has experienced situations that most people only ever read about. Thankful to have survived where some good friends have perished, he has got by with good luck, dark humour, preparedness and the help of friends and family. "You'd Be Nuts Too!" is a non-fiction collection of short stories that include sadness, badness and madness that will hopefully make you laugh, cry, gasp, and shake your head in disbelief.
Non-Fiction - "Don't Ask"
Whether it’s stood at the bar, sat in a beer garden, or gathered around a camp fire, the stories that get shared by a spirited bunch of paratroopers are sure to keep you entertained for hours. It would be easy to dismiss many of the tales from the past as works of fiction, or exaggerated half-truths, but when you’ve lived and worked with this extraordinarily diverse group of remarkable people, you understand that anything is possible. People often say the words “We should write a book!” and someone else might reply “Nobody would believe it if we did!” Steve Brown has done it and following on from his debut book “You’d be nuts too!” he shares another incredible collection of anecdotes, from his life in the elite Parachute Regiment and Pathfinders.
A mixture of his own experiences, and the escapades of fellow soldiers and friends, Steve tells the stories in raw, authentic detail, with the dark sense of humour that’s synonymous with the British soldier.
Fiction - "Meatheads"
When an officer from the elite Brigade Reconnaissance Force (BRF) is captured by the Taliban and threatened with execution, a fortunate chain of events leads to the identification of his captive location. Disregarding orders from their superiors, his fellow soldiers leap into action and mount a daring rescue mission to save him. Jumping from an RAF C130 Hercules airplane under the darkness of night, they freefall from twenty-five thousand feet and steer their parachutes into a remote mountain village. Upon landing they must navigate a complex system of high walled compounds and underground tunnels to find their comrade before he is murdered in cold blood. Intent on stopping them is a group of murderous, well-armed fanatics, prepared to fight to the death. Friendships and allegiances are made. Careers are built and destroyed. Lives are changed, lost and saved.
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