He Who Dares
New York, N.Y. Pocket Books, 1994. First Pocket Books Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xii, [2], 304, [2] pages. Illustrations. Map. Front cover has been torn off and reattached from the inside with tape. Includes Acknowledgments, Author's Note, Postscript, and Glossary. Also includes chapters on New Territory; Initiation; Sickener 1; Sickener 2; From Hereford to the Jebel Massif; Isolation; Operation Jaguar; Transfer; The Battle of Mirbat; Belfast; Hong Kong; A Visit from the Colonel; Embassy Siege; The Falklands; Fallen Comrades; Frustration; and The Final RV. The Astonishing True Story of an 18-Year veteran of One of the World's Fiercest Counterterrorist Forces, the SAS. A member of England's SAS (Special Air Service), recounts such adventures as holding off Yemeni tribesmen and hand-to-hand combat with IRA members in Belfast. The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. The SAS was founded in 1941 as a regiment, and later reconstituted as a corps in 1950. The unit specializes in a number of roles including counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, direct action and covert reconnaissance. Much of the information about the SAS is highly classified, and the unit is not commented on by either the British government nor the Ministry of Defence due to the secrecy and sensitivity of its operations. The corps currently consists of the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, the regular component under the operational command of United Kingdom Special Forces, as well as the 21 Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (Reserve) and the 23rd Special Air Service Regiment (Reserve), which are reserve units. More