British Special Forces

On 28 May 1982, 450 men of the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment—2 Para—went into action to retake the settlement of Goose Green on East Falkland, where more than 1,000 Argentine soldiers were holding 119 Falkland Islanders—men, women, children and one baby—in squalid conditions. Forty years on, Goose Green is still the biggest and bloodiest battle the British Army has fought in modern times. This book is the living narrative of the battle told by the very men who fought it.

‘SAS Shadow Warriors’ is an explosive account of some of the Special Air Service’s most dangerous and little known operations. It takes the reader on a rollercoaster of a ride from the jungles of Malaya, through the plains and mountains of the middle-east, to missions against international terrorism. Also featured are four stories of incredible derring-do from the Rhodesian SAS archives. It is a must read for those interested in military history, or fans of the SAS and Special Forces in general. ‘SAS Shadow Warriors’ is the latest book by the author of ‘Bravo Ten’, Andy Ryan.

Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the operators of 14 Company are Britain's most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off, 14 Company prevent 12. The selection process is the most physically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding anywhere in the world. This is the true story of one operator and of some of the most hair-raising military operations ever conducted on the streets of Britain.

This book is Harry McCallion's blistering account of the history of Britain's war against the IRA between 1970 and 1998. From new insights into high-profile killings and riveting accounts of enemy contact, to revelations about clandestine missions and the strategies used in combating a merciless enemy, Undercover War is the definitive inside story of the battle against the IRA, one of the most dangerous and effective terrorist organisations in recent history.

🔥 Burn Notice – A Hunter Thriller (Book One) You don’t leave the Regiment. Not clean. Not when you know the things Joseph Hunter knows. When a high-value target slips through the cracks in a covert Ethiopian mission, ex-SAS operator Joseph Hunter takes the fall. Discharged. Disavowed. Left to rot with nothing but regrets and a drinking habit that won't let go. But when an old enemy resurfaces—linked to a VX nerve agent and a string of shadow assassinations—Hunter is pulled back into a game he thought he’d escaped. Tasked with tracking a traitor buried deep within the UK ...

They Kidnapped His Sister. He’ll Get Her Back. FINN’S QUEST is a fast-paced military action fiction thriller featuring Captain Kirkland Finn of the British Army 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS). Follow Finn on a high-octane adventure journey from Afghanistan to the USA and back as he battles to free his kidnapped sister from American ex-special forces mercenaries and a vengeful Afghan drug lord. A 390-page action-packed covert-ops fiction thriller with twists and turns that will keep you guessing to the end, including FBI investigation, undercover CIA black-ops, espionage, DEA ...

During WW2, St. Nazaire was the most strategically important naval facility in the whole of occupied Europe. It was vital to the Nazi war effort because it was the only place outside Germany where the mighty Tirpitz battleship could be repaired and refitted. Having such a base meant that this most powerful of warships could be unleashed into the North Atlantic to attack the vulnerable allied supply lines and win the war for the Nazis. Central to the drama was the enormous ‘Normandie’ dry dock. If the Germans could make use of the dock to repair and refit Tirpitz, then the whole balance ...

When planned missions go wrong they usually end up with men being left in a compromised position, but in this instance Sergeant Mitch Mitchell was left on his own in a war torn country.Thinking that a UN mission would be arriving in the area that he was in Mitch waited for them to arrive but when they failed to show he then had no choice but to help the people to fight back at their aggressors.When Mitch learnt that the UN would not be coming he then had to make a decision to leave his current location.But after being captured and tortured Mitch then made his escape and what followed was ...

The NUMBER 1 Amazon bestselling Sam Tilson COLD SECRETS series begins... Old secrets never die - and everyone’s racing to unearth them. Dive into the pulse-pounding world of Sam Tilson, a former British Special Boat Service operative recruited into MI5’s Office of Inconclusive Covert Enquiries (ICE). Tilson’s routine desk job turns perilous when he’s dispatched to retrieve the secret diaries of a deceased diplomat in the unforgiving terrain of Norway. What starts as a straightforward mission quickly spirals into a high-stakes chase, with the Norwegian Police, Russian Military ...

In 1940 Winston Churchill established the Special Operations Executive to "set Europe ablaze". Three years later David Smiley and Billy McLean were parachuted into Northern Greece and crossed the border into Albania to do just that. For the next eight months Smiley mediated between the competing resistance factions and organized them to conduct ambushes and acts of sabotage on fascist armies and infrastructure.

MIND FORCE is a gripping action-adventure special forces thriller crammed full of twists, turns, espionage and military combat (411 pages). Join 22nd Special Air Service Regiment Captain Kirkland Finn as he battles an East German crime lord and his squad of ex-KSK mercenaries across multiple European countries. A fiction novel with covert military action, thrilling car and motorbike chases, helicopters, and fight scenes, written in a refreshing cinematic style without long-winded descriptions and meaningless dialogue. MIND FORCE is the third instalment of the Kirkland Finn military action-...

From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence. And the truth is often more remarkable than fiction.

MI6 has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of Ian Fleming and John le Carré. Gordon Corera provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction.

Afghan Heat is a fast paced story of an SAS operative on operations from SAS selection through to a tour on the battlefields of Afghanistan. The book follows individual operations where special forces, aircraft, and the latest surveillance technology are fused together - in order to capture key figures or simply take out an enemy stronghold. The books account is both gritty and graphical as it follows the SAS, battling at times against overwhelming odds in a hostile country. Fighting a war hardened enemy with years of experience fighting occupying forces. Even these elite soldiers with ...

Child slavery is rife. Hundreds of young people are being forced into lives of slavery by an international trafficking ring based in the jungles of central Africa. The cadets are tasked to present themselves as bait for the traffickers. Some of them head to Africa. Some stay in the UK. They are to gather hard intel which the authorities can use to nail the perpetrators of this twisted business.

British and American commanders first used modern Special Forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special operations themselves.

A top-secret government programme needs a crack team of undercover military operators. They must have awesome levels of determination, endurance and fitness. They must be able to think on their feet. The recruits undergo the most rigorous and testing selection process the modern military can devise. And in order to operate in circumstances where adult forces would be compromised, the recruits must be under 16. Only a few are tough enough and smart enough to make it.

It has been twelve months since Sergeant Major “Mitch” Mitchell walked through the door of office number four at the so called “Kremlin” at the SAS headquarters at Credenhill in Herefordshire. His life has now changed, and he has now been recruited into the totally deniable, and secret “E” Squadron SAS. This is the unit that works closely with the Secret Intelligence Service, (MI5 and MI6) in London. There task is not only to gather intelligence but also to provide specialised fighting teams. Mitch is now one of the members who will engage in top secret missions and will now ...

In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers, the Royal Navy warship carrying them bearing the iconic winged dagger emblem on its prow, plus the motto 'Who Dares Wins'. Led by the legendary SAS commander Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, these war-bitten, piratical raiders were tasked to do the impossible - to bludgeon their way through the most heavily defended enemy shoreline, so enabling the ensuing forces to follow on.

END OF EXISTENCE, the second instalment of the Kirkland Finn military thriller series, tells the story of a female environmentalist who has grown tired of humankind. Written in a cinematic style with relentless action from Hereford in the UK to the wastelands of Russia, Forrest of Finland and Lapland of Sweden, Andy Munro’s END OF EXISTENCE is action-packed fiction from start to end. Follow the adventures of SAS Captain Kirkland Finn and his squad of highly skilled covert operative soldiers as they fight to eliminate a terrorist biological warfare threat with the potential to wipe out ...

As the Japanese swept across Asia in the early years of World War II, the retreating Allies looked for ways to keep up the fight. In Malaya and Burma, agents had been left behind to stir resistance behind enemy lines, building up anti-Japanese operations from the safety of the jungle. In China, the American Office of Strategic Services helped both Nationalists and Communists in resisting the Japanese.