The first book on the Falklands War to be written by a SAS soldier who fought there.
Mark "Splash" Aston spent a lifetime in the Army, serving for 39 years in call. Joining the Glosters, as a teenager, he passed selection in 1978 and joined the Mountain Troop of D Squadron, 22 SAS, the only squadron involved in direct action against the Argentine forces. He finished his career as the Regiment's RSM.
As a veteran of the Falklands War, Splash saw action across the whole campaign- the taking of South Georgia, when the force was landed on a glacier during a white-out and both helicopters crashed in the blizzard; the daring attack on the Argentine's airfield on Pebble Island that evoked the Regiment's spirit and elan first shown in North Africa in WW2; the final battles on the slopes of Mount Kent where they faced the dangers of hypothermia in sub-zero temperatures and repeated attacks by Argentine Special Forces. The loss of the Sea King on 19th May, that led to the death of eighteen of his D Squadron comrades and almost saw him invalided home.
