Author: Lewis, Damien,
Title: OPERATION CERTAIN DEATH - The Inside Story of the SAS's Greatest Battle.
Description: BCA, London, 2004, club edn., xx, 459pp, 16pp coloured photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account based on interviews with the participants of Operation Barras, the special forces operation in Sierra Leone to rescue the 12 man patrol of Royal Irish Rangers who were seized by the guerilla gang the West Side Boys in 1999. Held prisoner in a fortified jungle camp and guarded by over 400 heavily armed gang members they were released by a combined force of 100 paras, 12 members of the SBS and 40 of the SAS, and the rebels annihilated, tiny bump lower tip upper board, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: army sas sierra leone west side boys royal irish rangers


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