British Special Forces

‘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.

The gripping and heroic firsthand account—like American Sniper mixed with a real-life version of Die Hard—by an off-duty special forces soldier who battled against a terrorist attack for twenty-two hours, and saved scores of American, Kenyan, and European lives. After an otherwise ordinary...

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. 

Paddy Mayne: SAS Legend and the Untold Fury of World War II The True Story of the Most Feared Warrior in Special Forces History Fearless. Brilliant. Haunted. Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne was one of the most formidable special forces commanders of World War II—yet his story remains shrouded in myth, controversy, and legend. From his days as a rugby star in Ireland to the blood-soaked deserts of North Africa, Mayne led the newly formed SAS with unrivalled courage and tactical genius. He blew up airfields, rescued comrades under fire, and reshaped modern warfare. And yet, behind the heroic...

POPSKI’S PRIVATE ARMY No. 1 Demolition Squadron: The Untold Story of Britain’s Maverick Special Forces in WWII Before the SAS became legend, another tiny British raiding force was already writing its own savage, improbable war across the desert and into Italy. Its commander was Vladimir Peniakoff — Belgian-born, Russian by blood, Cambridge-educated, desert-hardened, and unlike anyone the British Army knew what to do with. Nicknamed “Popski,” he built a fighting unit so small, so mobile, and so unconventional that it became one of the most remarkable special-forces formations of ...

From the gleaming parade grounds of Buckingham Palace to the mud-churned battlefields of history, the British Guards Regiments have long stood as the very embodiment of discipline, loyalty, and national pride. Guardians of the Crown takes listeners behind the polished buttons and scarlet tunics to reveal the extraordinary dual world of these soldiers — at once symbols of royal pageantry and hardened warriors forged in the crucible of war.

🔥 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 ...

DESERT RAIDERS tells the explosive true story of David Stirling, the birth of the SAS, and the men who dared behind Rommel’s lines in the brutal desert war of North Africa. Before the Special Air Service became one of the most famous special forces regiments in the world, it was an unlikely experiment: a small band of restless soldiers, misfits, volunteers, drivers, navigators and raiders who believed that a handful of men could strike harder than an army if they moved fast enough, quietly enough, and deep enough behind enemy lines. In the vast emptiness of the Western Desert, the normal ...

Three missing scientists. A stolen mind-altering weapon. Only one man can stop a devastating global exchange. When German mercenaries execute a daring raid on a remote Scottish military research station, they leave with a terrifying prize: a prototype mind-altering device and its digital blueprints. The government’s priority is immediate recovery before the technology falls into the wrong hands. But when a vital MI6 lead in Berlin goes dark and two agents turn up dead, the director turns to the only man he can trust outside the system—SAS Captain Kirkland Finn. Arriving in Berlin ...

A stolen Soviet biological weapon. A rogue eco-terrorist. Only one man can stop the end of life on Earth. Deep within the Baltic exclusion zone lies Yacheyka—a forgotten Soviet research facility sealed away after a deadly pathogen wiped out the town in the 1960s. For decades, its lethal secrets remained buried. Until now. Agneta Bergqvist, a billionaire climate activist turned radical eco-terrorist, has stolen the ultimate biological weapon. Frustrated by the world's inaction, she’s prepared to release the pathogen and teach humanity a final, fatal lesson. Enter SAS Captain Kirkland ...

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 ...

‘Paddy’ Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War. Hamish Ross’s authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander in the Commandos and then the SAS, whose leader he later became and whose annals he...

Before the SAS became a legend, one man taught it how to fight. David Stirling is remembered as the founder of the SAS. Paddy Mayne became one of its fiercest legends. But between the visionary and the warrior stood another man — quieter, sharper, and just as vital. Jock Lewes was the forgotten founder. In the deserts of North Africa, where distance, heat, darkness, and exhaustion punished every mistake, Lewes helped turn a daring idea into a working weapon. He trained the men. He shaped the standards. He refined the sabotage methods. He helped create the ruthless discipline that allowed ...

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 ...

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.

They Kidnapped His Sister. He’ll Get Her Back. An elite SAS warrior. A deadly drug cartel ran by an evil Afghan drug lord. A race against time across the globe. Captain Kirkland Finn is a man defined by duty, forged in the fires of the world’s most brutal conflict zones. But when an international drug cartel strikes too close to home—kidnapping someone he loves—the mission becomes deeply personal. Leaving the battlefields of Afghanistan behind, Finn tracks the enemy across the globe to the rugged, lawless stretches of the New Mexico and Texas borderlands. He’s out of his ...

British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets. It has instigated whispering campaigns and planted false evidence on officials working behind the Iron...

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 ...

An unsolved murder. An island gripped by corruption. And an SAS soldier with nothing left to lose. Haunted by the mysterious death of his parents, SAS Captain Kirkland Finn takes a temporary leave of absence from the regiment. Stripped of his weapons and operating without military protection, he arrives in Cyprus looking for answers—but instead walks straight into a hornets' nest. What was supposed to be a private investigation quickly derails when Finn uncovers an island completely riddled with police corruption and ruthless organized crime. Teaming up with Eleni Petrides, a sharp and ...

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.