Author: Fowler, William,
Title: OPERATION BARRAS - The SAS Rescue Mission, Sierra Leone 2000.
Description: Book Club Associates, London, 2004, club edn., [viii], 214pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., 6 in text maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the colonial background of Sierra Leone, the breakdown of government and civil war between militias, the intervention of United Nations in an effort to restore some stability and subsequent seizure of eleven British soldiers by the Militia gang 'West Side Boys' leading to the authorisation of a rescue mission by a British special force comprising D Squadron 22 SAS and A Company 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment, edges stanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: military army west africa sierra leone sas


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