Paddling flimsy canoes, and armed only with knives, pistols and a few sub-machine guns, this handful of brave and determined men operated deep behind enemy lines in the full knowledge that if caught they might be executed. These missions – including Operation Frankton, the daredevil attempt by the ‘Cockleshell Heroes’ to paddle up the Garonne river and sink Axis ships in Bordeaux harbour – were some of the most audacious and legendary of the war. Over the next four years, the SBS and its affiliates would carry out many more spectacular operations in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Channel and the Far East. The fledgling unit’s first mission was a daring beach reconnaissance of Rhodes in the spring of 1941. It went on to change the course of the Second World War – and has served as a model for special forces ever since. Founded in the dark days of 1940, it started as a small and inexperienced outfit that leaned heavily on volunteers’ raw courage and boyish enthusiasm. I am going to be telling everyone to buy it’ ROB RINDER, TALK RADIO THE FIRST AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE SBS.īritain’s SBS – or Special Boat Service – was the world’s first maritime special operations unit. ‘An absolute must-read if you are a fan of derring-do and Andy McNab. ‘A terrific book … It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I’ve read in many a year’ JAMES HOLLAND Visit Saul's website at THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Saul has presented and appeared in history progammes for all the major TV channels, and is Professor of Military History at the University of Buckingham. The third in the series, The Prince and the Whitechapel Murders, was published in February 2018. The first, Zulu Hart (2009), was described by The Times as a 'rattling good yarn' with 'a compelling, sexy hero who could give Cornwell's Sharpe a run for his money'. Saul has also written three historical novels set in the late Victorian period. It was released in the US and UK (as 'Entebbe') in the spring of 2018. The film rights to Operation Thunderbolt were bought by Hollywood film company Participant Media and used in the making of the motion picture '7 Days in Entebbe', co-produced by Working Title, directed by José Padilha, and starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl and Eddie Marsan. His many critically-acclaimed history books include: The Indian Mutiny:1857 (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature) Zulu (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year) Victoria's Wars, Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport (an Amazon UK History Book of the Year), The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission Impossible, and Crucible of Hell: The Last Great Battle of World War Two. SAUL DAVID is an historian, broadcaster and novelist. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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