Operation Barras. The SAS Rescue Mission. Sierra Leone 2000

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: Reprint

Description: 214 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The British Army has earned a worldwide reputation for its skill at 'peacemaking', intervening in the Balkans and the Middle East to stop civil wars and end communal violence. It does this so well that the horrific risks involved are only really understood by the soldiers themselves, on patrol in strange lands riven by ancient hatreds. In September 2000 these dangers were suddenly highlighted by the capture of eleven British soldiers by a notorious militia gang in Sierra Leone. The so-called 'West Side Boys' had subjected their part of the country to a long reign of terror, murdering, kidnapping and mutilating anyone who stood in their way.

ISBN: 9780297846284