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SAS – Battle Ready: True Stories from Memorable Missions Around the World
The Special Air Service – the SAS – are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by the SAS from its inception during the Second World War to the present day, describing in dramatic detail the unit’s most daring and memorable missions in trouble spots across the world.
Revelatory and gripping, the author weaves together the extraordinary true stories of this brave fighting force, wherever they are in action. From missions on home shores to Iraq, Sierra Leone, the Falkland Islands, Europe, Libya, Malaya, Afghanistan and more, SAS Battle Ready brings together both the history of the unit and some of its most powerful moments.
From hostage rescues to ambushes, from sabotage to jungle warfare and from pitched battles to reconnaissance, it hasn’t always gone according to plan but the courage and devotion to duty revealed within show just what it takes to be an SAS soldier.
Revelatory and gripping, the author weaves together the extraordinary true stories of this brave fighting force, wherever they are in action. From missions on home shores to Iraq, Sierra Leone, the Falkland Islands, Europe, Libya, Malaya, Afghanistan and more, SAS Battle Ready brings together both the history of the unit and some of its most powerful moments.
From hostage rescues to ambushes, from sabotage to jungle warfare and from pitched battles to reconnaissance, it hasn’t always gone according to plan but the courage and devotion to duty revealed within show just what it takes to be an SAS soldier.
304 pages, Paperback
Published August 11, 2023
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About the author
Dominic Utton
22 books9 followersDominic Utton is a novelist, non-fiction writer and journalist.
His latest novel, Dead End Close, is published by The Odyssey Press on the Kindle Store.
His debut novel, Martin Harbottle’s Appreciation of Time, was published by Oneworld in 2014 and described as “compellingly hilarious” by the Daily Express, “unexpected and amusing… very entertaining” by The Lady, with the Irish Times declaring: “the world’s commuters have finally got their own latter-day Updike”.
He has also written several non-fiction books, including The Real Football Factories, with Danny Dyer (John Blake, 2010) and the children's book How to Go Wild (Scholastic, 2012).
His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the News of the World, the Sun, the Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Q, and many other newspapers and magazines.
He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children and is represented by Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown Literary Agency.
His latest novel, Dead End Close, is published by The Odyssey Press on the Kindle Store.
His debut novel, Martin Harbottle’s Appreciation of Time, was published by Oneworld in 2014 and described as “compellingly hilarious” by the Daily Express, “unexpected and amusing… very entertaining” by The Lady, with the Irish Times declaring: “the world’s commuters have finally got their own latter-day Updike”.
He has also written several non-fiction books, including The Real Football Factories, with Danny Dyer (John Blake, 2010) and the children's book How to Go Wild (Scholastic, 2012).
His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the News of the World, the Sun, the Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Q, and many other newspapers and magazines.
He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children and is represented by Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown Literary Agency.
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June 16, 2023
This epic history of Britain's elite SAS is told in 40 of its greatest missions.
Formed in World War Two North Africa, they went on to fight on D-Day and in Europe. Postwar, the regiment fought across the world including Malaysia, Baghdad, Northern Ireland and The Falklands.
Skills evolved from raiding into hostage rescue, counterterrorism and sabotage in desert, jungle and urban warfare including the 1980 Iranian embassy siege, reported live on TV.
This compact and compelling account of triumph and tragedy vividly shows how people sleep peacefully because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Formed in World War Two North Africa, they went on to fight on D-Day and in Europe. Postwar, the regiment fought across the world including Malaysia, Baghdad, Northern Ireland and The Falklands.
Skills evolved from raiding into hostage rescue, counterterrorism and sabotage in desert, jungle and urban warfare including the 1980 Iranian embassy siege, reported live on TV.
This compact and compelling account of triumph and tragedy vividly shows how people sleep peacefully because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
January 16, 2025
Great book
Really good book enjoyed reading, especially all the operation the SAS did only now can we start to read them
Really good book enjoyed reading, especially all the operation the SAS did only now can we start to read them
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