SBS Marine H: the Burma Offensive

by Ian Blake

Fresh from the 1943 Aegean Campaign, explosives expert Sergeant Colin 'Tiger' Tiller of the Royal Marines,  is selected to undergo covert training in a one-man midget submarine fitted with a newly modified, specialist weapon.

Posted to the Far East he enrolls in the Special Boat Section, where he set about ruthlessly destroying Japanese supply ships among the crocodile-infested mangrove swamps along the Arakan coast, raiding enemy-held islands, and employing his deadly skills on Burma's Irrawaddy River. There he receives special orders to use the midget submarine in his most dangerous raid yet…

Marine H SBS: The Burma Offensive — based on real operations mounted during World War II— recounts the death-defying exploits of a group of highly trained individuals pitted against the armed might of the Japanese Empire. 

This is classic military fiction at its best.

279 pages, Paperback

First published June 6, 1996

Reviews

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I very much enjoyed hearing the little known story of the SBS soldiers' work in the Pacific theater, specifically Burma region. The mission stories' retelling could have been brought to life a little more. But, it was still exciting all the same. The interactions between Tiller and his superiors, and the beaurocracy for that matter, were actually very well written. Made you feel like you were there in the room for the conversations. The authentic British accent from the narrator of the audiobook was both tough at times, and pleasant at others. It did make the dialogue feel very real, though.