Complete History of the SAS, The

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Britain's SAS Regiment is famous around the world. Whey they do battle, the news spreads quickly. SAS actions have always been swift and hard-hitting and today's SAS Regiment perfect lessons that were first learned during the Second World War. The SAS have never tried to involve themselves in pitch battles. They plan raids, they hunt in the jungle and they storm in when no-one else can help. Their way of fighting involves information, intelligence and serious firepower. This book tells the full story of the most famous regiment in military history. The story unfolds and travels the world, from foundation in North Africa during the Second World War by Lieutenant David Stirling to the praise heaped upon it by Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, in Iraq in 2003. It is a story of daring raids behind enemy lines, silent manoeuvres, hijacks, incredible bravery and mroe.