Bosnian Inferno (SAS Operation)


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Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS lead a civilian population out of war-ravaged Bosnia to safety? Bosnia, 1993. A small army of Serbs, Muslims and Croats, formed to defend the isolated mountain town of Zavik and under the command of Reeve, a renegade Briton, has begun mounting raids further afield in search of food, fuel and medical supplies. All sides in the civil war are enraged by its exploits; even UN mediators recognize the need for its suppression. But there are only two people Reeve will listen to: his ex-wife, and an ex-comrade in the SAS. The latter is willing to lead a team into Zavik; the former has first to be found - she is either trapped in Sarajevo or imprisoned in a Serbian concentration camp. Rescuing her is only the beginning. The SAS team will then have to traverse the mountainous war zone and force their way into the besieged town. This will be difficult enough. Fighting their way out of the war-ravaged territory with a convoy of the sick, the old and the very young will be next to impossible.




Marine L SBS


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In the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, Roger 'Jumbo' Pountney is ordered to form and train a small group of canoeists. Taking as his paddler and second-in-command Lieutenant Philip Ayton of the Royal Marines, they command a body of men, known as No.1 Special Boat Section, who are as ruthless and independent as any that fought in World War II. They employ Folbot kayaks to get ashore from submarines to attack vital enemy targets in the Mediterranean and in these hazardous clandestine operations, skill and stealth count just as much as bravery. It is in the midst of these battles that the reputation of the legendary SBS would be forged. Based on early SBS missions undertaken during World War II, this is classic military fiction at its best.




Marine I SBS


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In 1995, in the aftermath of the First Gulf War, a defector from Saddam Hussein's Iraq makes contact with the Western press. He claims to have startling new information about an Iraqi nuclear weapons programme, but suddenly he disappears without a trace. Unwilling to risk a new war in the Gulf, the West disregards him as a fraud, but a key scientific advisor to the British government has other ideas. When news of a hush-hush project on a converted rig in the Caspian Sea breaks with reports of another disappearance – this time of a nuclear missile expert – the threads of an international plot are unravelled. It soon becomes clear that there is only one group with the necessary skills to investigate: Britain's legendary Special Boat Squadron. Marine I SBS: Escape from Azerbaijan finds the Squadron's finest in a corner of the old Soviet Union riven by war and lawlessness, fighting for survival against the sadistic intelligence agents of Saddam's Mukhabarat and the heirs of the KGB. This is classic military fiction at its best.




Marine G SBS


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South China Sea, 1995. Pirates rule the waves and ships are disappearing in deadly ocean blackspots. To combat these cut-throats, a SBS team is sent to Singapore to play a game of high-stakes hide-and-seek across the tropical seas, picking up a trail which leads them north towards Hong Kong. Meanwhile, as the Communist Chinese takeover looms for the British colony, Inspector Rosalie Kai is investigating a barbaric cross-border trade in unwanted female babies. Soon both she and the SBS team find themselves in the underworld jungle up against a criminal organization that stretches from one end of the South China Sea to the other, fighting rogue elements of the Indonesian Army, corrupt policemen, and the foot soldiers of the fearsome Triads. This is classic military fiction at its best.




Marine B SBS


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In 1943 Sergeant 'Tiger' Tiller was already a seasoned veteran and a surviving member of the 'Cockleshell Heroes'. However, his war was far from over as he joined the newly formed detachment of the Special Boat Section led by Captain Magnus Larseen in the islands of the Aegean. There they would conduct a perilous, piratical war, using guns, knives and their bare hands to battle the might of the German Wehrmacht. Slipping from island to island they would call upon all their resourcefulness, courage and daring to defeat the enemy. This is classic military fiction at its best.




Marine H SBS


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Fresh from the 1943 Aegean Campaign, explosives expert Sergeant Colin 'Tiger' Tiller of the Royal Marines, is selected to undergo covert training in a one-man midget submarine fitted with a newly modified, specialist weapon. Posted to the Far East he enrolls in the Special Boat Section, where he set about ruthlessly destroying Japanese supply ships among the crocodile-infested mangrove swamps along the Arakan coast, raiding enemy-held islands, and employing his deadly skills on Burma's Irrawaddy River. There he receives special orders to use the midget submarine in his most dangerous raid yet... Marine H SBS: The Burma Offensive - based on real operations mounted during World War II- recounts the death-defying exploits of a group of highly trained individuals pitted against the armed might of the Japanese Empire. This is classic military fiction at its best.




Marine D SBS


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In Cold War parlance, the British government liked to think of it as a counter intelligence mission. To the Russians it would be seen as an act of international piracy. In an operation cloaked in secrecy, the elite men of the legendary Special Boat Squadron were to go up against the most sophisticated and hi-tech surveillance systems the Russian Navy possessed with only some crude, hastily-built wind-powered craft at their disposal. Little did they know that things were about to go terribly wrong. Marine D SBS: Windswept sees the SBS put to the ultimate test, with all their tactical prowess and monumental daring required to rescue the situation. There would be no second chances as failure could see the volatile Middle East blasted into all-out war. This is classic military fiction at its best.




Dangerous Men


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‘A clear-headed critique of the SAS cult ... an incisive challenge to the mindless worship of 'the Regiment'.' --Boyd Tonkin, Independent




Marine C SBS


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Summer 1994, the Bahamas: an English doctor working at a clinic in the Turks and Caicos Islands suddenly disappeared, leaving only one trace – a fast-fading smell of chloroform in his bedroom. A week later, in nearby Florida, another man was found shot dead in his car, apparently the latest in a long line of European tourists murdered on the highways of the Sunshine State. US police found one link – Cuban gangster and British citizen Fidel Arcilla. At once the British government was invited by Washington to put its Caribbean house in order, and they in turn called on the Marines of the legendary Special Boat Service. Battling South American drug lords, Haitian generals, Cuban exiles and the Miami underworld, these elite soldiers would stop at nothing to achieve their objectives. This is classic military fiction at its best.




Marine A SBS


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North Sea, 1982. A ruthless terrorist attack on the desperately vulnerable oil fields has left rigs destroyed or hijacked, the Prime Minister held to ransom and Great Britain facing economic collapse. The world's top security agencies were left stunned and helpless. Only one elite fighting force could meet the terrorist threat. It was up to Tony Masters and the men of the Royal Marines Special Boat Squadron, the legendary SBS, to attempt the impossible. Their objective: to defeat the terrorists, rescue the Prime Minister and regain control of the oil fields – all while battling against the deadly North Sea. This is classic military fiction at its best.