SAS - Battle Ready
True Stories from Memorable Missions Around the World
Published on 25. May 2023
304 pages
978-1-78929-537-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Special Air Service - the SAS - are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by the SAS from its inception during the Second World War to the present day, describing in dramatic detail the unit's most daring and memorable missions in trouble spots across the world.
Revelatory and gripping, the author weaves together the extraordinary true stories of this brave fighting force, wherever they are in action. From missions on home shores to Iraq, Sierra Leone, the Falkland Islands, Europe, Libya, Malaya, Afghanistan and more, SAS Battle Ready brings together both the history of the unit and some of its most powerful moments.
From hostage rescues to ambushes, from sabotage to jungle warfare and from pitched battles to reconnaissance, it hasn't always gone according to plan but the courage and devotion to duty revealed within show just what it takes to be an SAS soldier.
Revelatory and gripping, the author weaves together the extraordinary true stories of this brave fighting force, wherever they are in action. From missions on home shores to Iraq, Sierra Leone, the Falkland Islands, Europe, Libya, Malaya, Afghanistan and more, SAS Battle Ready brings together both the history of the unit and some of its most powerful moments.
From hostage rescues to ambushes, from sabotage to jungle warfare and from pitched battles to reconnaissance, it hasn't always gone according to plan but the courage and devotion to duty revealed within show just what it takes to be an SAS soldier.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
2,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78929-537-5 (9781789295375)
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Dominic Utton is a journalist, author and novelist with over twenty years' experience. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Sunday Times, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Elle and many other newspapers and magazines. He is based in London and Oxford.
