Mammoth Book of Special Forces : Over 30 Missions of Ultimate Danger Behind Enemy Lines, from the Attempted Assassination of Rommel to the Iraq War

by Lewis, Jon E.

• ISBN13: 9780786714278
• ISBN10: 0786714271
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-03
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Fully up-to-date, this riveting collection includes the most recent operations into Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia, and features the entire range of special forces from SAS, Commandos, and Rangers to Navy SEALS and Paratroopers. Among the legendary "behind the lines" operations of the Special Forces from their formation in 1940 onwards are the Green Berets in Vietnam, the Royal Marine Commandos in the Falklands, the SBS in the Aegean in WWII, and US Navy SEALS in the Gulf War. The Mammoth Book of Special Forces contains thirty true and graphic accounts of the most heroic missions ever undertaken behind enemy lines.

Author Biography

Jon E. Lewis was born in 1961. His many previous books include The Mammoth Book of the Secrets of the SAS and Elite Forces, D-Day as They Saw it, The Mammoth Book of How It Happened World War II, The Mammoth Book of Soldiers at War, The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast and The Mammoth Book of True War Stories.

Table of Contents

Victor Two (22 SAS, Iraq 1991)	p. 5
Urgent fury (US Rangers, Grenada 1983)	p. 17
Cockleshell heroes (Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment, France 1942)	p. 36
Operation Struggle (Royal Navy X Craft, Japan 1945)	p. 53
The Drop (7 Flieger, Crete 1941)	p. 75
The Battery at Merville (The Parachute Regiment, France 1944)	p. 91
Bandit country (42 Commando RM, Malaya 1950)	p. 102
Emergency exit (The Chindits, Burma 1943)	p. 117
Rung Sat (US Navy SEALs, Vietnam 1966)	p. 139
The Colombian job (22 SAS, Colombia 1991)	p. 148
One night in the Aegean (SBS, Greece 1944)	p. 155
Citadel (Waffen SS Special Troops, Hungary 1944)	p. 165
The Pass of La Molina (41 Royal Marine Commando, Italy 1943)	p. 183
The Lofoten Raid (11 Commando, Norway 1941)	p. 200
Storm in the Fjord (3 & 2 Commando, Norway 1941)	p. 211
The attack on Rommel's HQ (11 Scottish Commando, North Africa 1941)	p. 244
Desert Patrol (Long Range Desert Group, North Africa 1941)	p. 256
Hunted (SBS, Italy 1943)	p. 276
Pantelleria (2 SAS, Italy 1943)	p. 298
Operation Jumbo (UN Composite Unit, Korea 1950)	p. 303
Underwater Taxi (HMS Seraph, Italy 1943)	p. 321
Eagle Claw (Delta Force, Iran 1980)	p. 339
Jungle fighters (22 SAS, Borneo 1963-5)	p. 347
Interrogation (SOE, France 1944)	p. 356
Operation Leopard (2 REP, French Foreign Legion, 1978)	p. 390
Recon (LRRP, Vietnam 1967)	p. 398
The abduction (SOE, Crete 1942)	p. 415
Just cause (US Navy SEALs & US 1st Ranger Battalion, Panama 1988)	p. 425
Dangerous encounter (1 SAS, France 1944)	p. 433
Fighting fire with fire (22 SAS, Afghanistan 2002)	p. 441
The revolt in the desert - Special Force Operations, Arabia, 1917	p. 449
SAS chronology	p. 492
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