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.

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.

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.

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.

🔥 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 ...

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 ...

Finn Hunts an Eco-Terrorist with a Cold War Biological Weapon. 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 life around the globe. Andy Munro’s END OF EXISTENCE is action-packed fiction at its best, written in a fast-paced cinematic style with twists and turns all the way to the end. SAS Captain Kirkland Finn travels undercover for MI6 to an abandoned Soviet weapons research facility. What he discovers could mean the end of life on...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Curtain, tried to foment revolution in Albania, blown up ships to prevent the passage of refugees to Israel, and secretly funneled aid to insurgents in Afghanistan and dissidents in Poland. Through bribery and blackmail, Britain has rigged elections as colonies moved to independence.

Finn goes undercover to retrieve a stolen mid-altering weapon from a German Crime Lord. MIND FORCE is a gripping action-adventure special forces thriller crammed full of twists and turns. Follow 22nd Special Air Service Regiment Captain Kirkland Finn as he goes undercover to recover stolen British weapon technology. 411 pages of fast-paced, military intelligence and undercover espionage fiction. Andy Munro’s MIND FORCE features a refreshing cinematic writing style without long-winded descriptions and meaningless dialogue. Pure escapism that is difficult to put down, Experience covert ...

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.

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.

In an inspiring story of valor and the making of a hero, Florent Groberg—who grew up in France and emigrated to the US—becomes the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Florent “Flo” Groberg was born...

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 blistering, high-octane military thriller that plunges readers into the brutal reality of modern warfare. From the grueling crucible of SAS selection to the unforgiving battlefields of Afghanistan, this gripping book follows one elite operative through a series of covert missions where precision, firepower and cutting-edge surveillance collide. Each operation is a masterclass in tactical warfare; be it hunting high-value targets or dismantling fortified enemy strongholds. But in a land scorched by conflict and steeped in resistance, even the most advanced weaponry and air ...

An “un-putdownable read” (Stephen Grey, author of Ghost Plane) that reveals the true story of a plane of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a war zone and were delivered to a murderous dictator On August 1, 1990, Flight 149 was scheduled for its routine London-to-Kuala Lumpur run. But...

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.

A journalist dies asking the wrong questions. A new president hides a blood-soaked secret. And one disgraced soldier won't let it go. Ben Gabriel's life is unraveling. Dishonorably discharged from British Special Forces. Fired from South African military intelligence. His girlfriend vanished without explanation. He's drinking too much, sleeping too little, and running out of reasons to care. Then a journalist is murdered in Cape Town harbor—a man who'd been investigating the president-elect's dark past. Gabriel knows what the authorities won't admit: this wasn't random violence. Someone ...

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 ...