You Shouldn't Have Joined ...: A Memoir

Peter Gosgrove is recognised throughout Australia for his leadership in both the military and in public life for his time served as Governor General. He has a genuine humanitarian instinct that is recognised by all sides of the political spectrum. Noted as an inspirational speaker and as a leader, he is a well-respected public figure that is loved and honoured by the vast majority. I have always admired him.

It now pains me to write this but this is a very pedestrian read that is bland in prose and makes what should have been exciting events boring. For a bloke who fought in the Vietnam War through to meeting some of the most important world leaders of his times, when reading I never felt any excitement or insight. Peter gave himself self away late in the book when he wrote that he had become a “dab hand at delicately stepping through the issue(s)”.