S.B.S.: The Inside Story of the Special Boat Service

Inside story of Britain’’s most elite and secretive special service. Tells of daring SBS operations on sea and land from World War Two to today’s Afghanistan.

The SAS are a familiar - almost over-familiar - body thanks to relentless media publicity. Their nautical cousins, the Special Boat Service [S.B.S.] by contrast, have fought far more shy of the headles. Yet - as this book makec clear - the S.B.S. have probably been involved in as many desperate and daring acts of derring-do as their better-known secret warfare rivals. Although they are one of the better-kept secrets among the world’s elite special forces, their record of bravery is second to none. Author John Parker, a journalist who has written several books about the world’s elite units, here winkles out many of the S.B.S’s secrets - telling the inside story of legendary Wolrld War Two operations, including the famous Operation Frankton - the work of the ‘Cockleshell Heroes’ ;- the SBS’s role in the Cold War and the 1963 confrontation with Indonesia; and more recently its part in the Gulf Wars, and the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Parker focusees on both the men of the SBS - and the vital and ever-evolving kit - including their boats - that enable them to carry out their death defying dives and raids.

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Product Code:	10555
Author:	John Parker
Format:	350pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £12.99
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