OPERATION CERTAIN DEATH: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SAS'S GREATEST BATTLE.
by LEWIS**, DAMIEN:
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- ISBN 10
- 184413394X
- ISBN 13
- 9781844133949
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges with some minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges brighter and generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean also - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's clean original plain black cloth boards with crisp,bright,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xivpp+2-495pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illustrations lists/tables,author's note,a prologue,27 chapters,a postscript,16pp of contemporary glossy colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp140/1 and pp300/1 respectively,an afterword, appendices (4) and a glossary; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages and dedication.
This,then,is the untold epic story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since WW2: the rescue by the SAS of British Forces who were being held captive by the guerilla gang,The West Side Boys in the Sierra Leone jungle.The West Side Boys wear pink shades,shower caps, fluorescent wigs and voodoo charms.
They believe these make them invulnerable to bullets - an impression re-enforced by ganja, heroin,crack cocaine and gallons of sweet palm wine.They terrify the local inhabitants by dressing up in monkey skins and abducting children for rape,torture and mutilation.Their motto was: 'What makes the grass grow? Blood. Blood.Blood.'
In 1999,a 12-man patrol of Royal Irish Rangers, who were training government troops in Sierra Leone,were captured by The West Side Boys.They were held prisoner in a fortified jungle hideaway,defended by over 400 heavily armed soldiers.Operation Barras,the mission to rescue them was a combined force of 100 Paras,12 members of the Special Boat Squadron,helicopters from the Navy and RAF and,spearheading the operation,the 40-strong D Squadron of the SAS. Extensive interviews with the participants and survivors of Operation Barras have produced this blow-by-blow account,in which Lewis recounts the sights,the smells,and the soul-shattering confrontations.Against amazing odds the hostages were rescued.And rather than succeeding in Operation Kill British and Kill All Your Family, the rebels were annihilated - bringing an end to ten years of Africa's most brutal civil war.This is the story of the rescue mission of the century in Africa's heart of darkness.
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- Title
- OPERATION CERTAIN DEATH: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SAS'S GREATEST BATTLE.
- Author
- LEWIS**, DAMIEN:
- Illustrator
- illus with contemporary colour photographs.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 184413394X
- ISBN 13
- 9781844133949
- Publisher
- LONDON.CENTURY,2004.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- March 1, 2004
- Keywords
- q52.NAVAL/MILITARY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 184413394X.SAS_SBS_PARAS-Special Forces Rescue missions_20thC.SBS_Sierra Leone_West Side Boys_Operation Barras.Africa_civil war.Royal Irish Rangers_Africa_Sierra Leone_capture_rescue.Magbeni_rebels camp_Roke
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