First into Action
Dramatic Personal Account of Life Inside the SBS
Duncan Falconer(Author)
Time Warner Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-7515-2630-1 (ISBN)
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Description
The SBS was first into battle a month before the SAS in the Falklands War and again in the Gulf War, yet hitherto it is the SAS that has had by far the higher profile. The SBS draws its man-power solely from the Marine Commando Units and the Royal Marines are the oldest and most battle-honoured regiment in the world. This volume is a Special Boat Services memoir written from the inside. It tells how Duncan Falconer trained with the Royal Marines in Deal before being recruited into the SBS at Poole in Dorset. The regimen of ruthless training is graphically described and the book also includes accounts of SBS operations in Ulster, Bosnia and the Gulf War, and the intense rivalry between the SAS's individualist mentality and the more team-based, marine ethos of the SBS.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 108 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7515-2630-1 (9780751526301)
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07/2001
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Person
Duncan Falconer grew up in Battersea in London, spending the first ten years of his life in an orphanage. He became a Special Forces operative at the age of nineteen (it is unlikely there will ever be one as young again). He is now a successful screenwriter in Los Angeles.