"Thrilling examination of some of the actions the SAS has been involved in up to and including its service in East Timor."--Publisher's website.
This is a comprehensive account of the battles and campaigns, weapons and equipment, training and tactics of Britain's Special Air Service.
CHAPTER 5 NORTHERN IRELAND In the troubles of Northern Ireland the SAS played an important part gathering vital intelligence ; it also became notorious , even controversial , after bloody ambushes of IRA terrorist groups .
Fastpaced, earthy, dramatic, funny, occasionally disturbing, Eye of the Storm is laced with firsthand descriptions of ferocious and bloody fighting and peopled with a cast of extraordinary individuals.
The SAS first went into action in Borneo in 1963 and saw further action in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, and in Somalia, Kuwait and East Timor in the 1990s.In Action with the SAS is based on the classic work SAS; Phantoms Of War by David ...
The full Jeapes , Colonel Tony , SAS Operation story of S.A.S. , Delta Force & Spetsnaz , Oman , William Kimber , 1980 Hutchinson , 1988 Ladd , James D. , SAS Operations , Robert Beckwith , Colonel Charlie A. USA ( Ret . ) ...
During the same period, a squadron recruited from the Parachute Regiment (Parachute Regiment Squadron), commanded by Major Dudley Coventry, further reinforced the SAS. By the latter half of 1956, 560 soldiers comprising five squadrons ...
This enhanced edition contains additional audio and text material: - Audio Recording of an SAS Firefight in Oman, 1973 - The Little Book of SAS by Peter Ratcliffe, an extensive glossary of SAS terms
Eye of the Storm: Twenty-five Years in Action with the SAS
'One Up' is the inside, first-person account of one woman's experiences inside the most secretive unit of the SAS, 14 Intelligence Company, and is also the first book to be written by a female member of the SAS.
SAS in Action