SBS - Silent Warriors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SBS - Silent Warriors write by Saul David. This book was released on 2021-09-02. SBS - Silent Warriors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History
SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History write by Saul David. This book was released on 2021-09-02. SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A terrific book ... It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I’ve read in many a year’ JAMES HOLLAND ‘Riveting ... A brilliant account’ DAILY MAIL
SBS - Silent Warriors
SBS - Silent Warriors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SBS - Silent Warriors write by Saul David. This book was released on 2021. SBS - Silent Warriors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A terrific book ... It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I've read in many a year' JAMES HOLLAND 'Riveting ... A brilliant account' DAILY MAIL THE FIRST AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE SBS. Britain's SBS - or Special Boat Service - was the world's first maritime special operations unit. Founded in the dark days of 1940, it started as a small and inexperienced outfit that leaned heavily on volunteers' raw courage and boyish enthusiasm. It went on to change the course of the Second World War - and has served as a model for special forces ever since. The fledgling unit's first mission was a daring beach reconnaissance of Rhodes in the spring of 1941. Over the next four years, the SBS and its affiliates would carry out many more spectacular operations in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Channel and the Far East. These missions - including Operation Frankton, the daredevil attempt by the 'Cockleshell Heroes' to paddle up the Garonne river and sink Axis ships in Bordeaux harbour - were some of the most audacious and legendary of the war. Paddling flimsy canoes, and armed only with knives, pistols and a few sub-machine guns, this handful of brave and determined men operated deep behind enemy lines in the full knowledge that if caught they might be executed. Many were. Yet their many improbable achievements - destroying enemy ships and infrastructure, landing secret agents, tying up enemy forces, spreading fear and uncertainty, and, most importantly, preparing the ground for D-Day - helped to make an Allied victory possible. Written with the full cooperation of the modern SBS - the first time this ultra-secretive unit has given its seal of approval to any book - and exclusive access to its archives, SBS: Silent Warriors allows Britain's original special forces to emerge from the shadows and take their proper and deserved place in our island story.
SBS
SBS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SBS write by John Parker. This book was released on 2013-02-28. SBS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The men of the SBS are the maritime equivalent of their counterparts in the SAS; they are the elite of the British Special Forces and also the most secretive. Although SAS activity has been extensively documented, the SBS has remained in the state it prefers - a shadowy silhouette, with identities protected and missions kept from public view. Formed during the Second World War, when they took part in many daring raids (one of which was filmed as The Cockleshell Heroes), they were active in the jungle campaigns in the Far East, in the Falklands, the Gulf War and Bosnia. Since this seminal book was published in 1997, John Parker has been privy to much more inside information about the SBS's original operations and he brings the book right up to date with accounts of their exploits in East Timor, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Kosovo and most recently in Iraq.
Special Forces Hero
Special Forces Hero - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Special Forces Hero write by Thomas Harder. This book was released on 2021-04-30. Special Forces Hero available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until the German occupation of his native Denmark in April 1940 Anders Lassen had no interest in the War. Yet over the next five years he became a highly decorated Special Forces legend and the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross. After taking part in a mutiny on board a Danish ship, he made his way to Scotland. He first joined the Special Operations Executive before serving with the Small Scale Raiding Force, Special Air Service and Special Boat Service. He took part in the daring Operation Postmaster, off West Africa, and raided the Channel Islands and the Normandy coast. He saw most action in Eastern Mediterranean, fighting in Crete, the Dodecanese, Yugoslavia, mainland Greece and finally Italy. In April 1945, now a major aged 24, he was killed at Lake Comacchio, where his gallantry earned him his posthumous VC. This superb biography is not just a worthy tribute to an outstanding soldier, but a superb account of the numerous special force operations Anders was involved in.
