Operation Certain Death: The Inside Story Of The SAS's Greatest Battle

Operation Certain Death: The Inside Story Of The SAS's Greatest Battle by Damien Lewis


ISBN
9781844136780
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
480

Described as 'Black Hawk Down' meets 'Ghost Soldiers' this book chronicles the story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World War Two - Operation Barras; the attempted rescue by the SAS of the British Forces who were being held captive by the guerrilla gang the West Side Boys in the Sierra Leone jungle.

The West Side Boys were a strange-looking bunch. Wearing pink shades, shower caps, fluorescent wigs and voodoo charms they believed made them invulnerable to bullets - an impression re-enforced by ganja, heroine, crack cocaine and gallons of sweet palm wine. They terrified the local inhabitants by dressing up in monkey skins and abducting children for rape, torture and mutilation.

In 1999 a 12 man patrol of Royal Irish Rangers, who were training government troops in Sierra Leone, were captured and held hostage by the West Side Boys. They were held prisoner in a fortified jungle hideaway, with severed heads decorating the palisades and defended by some 400 heavily armed soldiers.

Operation Barras, the mission to rescue them, was a combined force of 100 paratroopers, 12 members of the Special Boat Squadron, helicopters from the Navy and RAF and, spearheading the operation, 40-strong D squadron of the SAS.

Against amazing odds the hostages were rescued - over 150 of the enemy were killed. This is a story of all out war. No hostages taken. Blood-letting on a vast scale inflicted on a very blood-thirsty enemy.
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