The inside story of recent British Special Forces missions Written by a journalist with excellent contacts in the SAS This is the SAS version of 'Band of Brothers' 'Christian Jennings has pulled off a bit of a coup in writing his revealing account of SAS actions in a number of campaigns from the Balkans to Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq. The spills and thrills of the men in the black balaclavas, desert turbans and shamargs dazzle and amaze like the fables of Scheherezade and the Thousand and One Nights' Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'An absorbing and authoritative read...a thoughtful and provocative book, never more so than when Jennings turns his expert eye on the proliferation of private security outfits in Iraq, especially Baghdad' Daily Mail.
Christian Jennings is a foreign correspondent who has been covering military interventions, Special Forces operations and world conflicts for twelve years in thirteen different countries. He was based in Kosovo and the Balkans from 1999 - 2003 for The Economist, and the Daily Telegraph and prior to this he spent four years in Central Africa, reporting mainly for Reuters from Rwanda and Burundi.
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