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The SBS in World War II

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English

By (author): Gavin Mortimer

A gripping history of Britains Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Regimental Association. The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during World War II, and yet its exploits have been largely forgotten. This book tells its story. Highly trained, totally secretive and utterly ruthless, the SBS was established as an entity in its own right in early 1943. Unlike its sister unit, which numbered more than 1,000 men, the SBS never comprised more than 100. Led by men such as the famed Victoria Cross recipient Anders Lassen, the SBS went from island to island in the Mediterranean, landing in the dead of night in small fishing boats and launching savage hit and run raids on the Germans. Through unrivalled access to the archives of the SAS Regimental Association and interviews with the surviving members of the unit, Gavin Mortimer has pieced together the dramatic feats of this elite fighting force. In this new and updated paperback edition, featuring additional content including new text and photographs, the unit and its members are finally granted the recognition that they so richly deserve. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 19 May 2016
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781472811134

About Gavin Mortimer

Gavin Mortimer is the author of Stirling's Men (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2004) a ground-breaking history of the early operations of the SAS The SAS in World War II (Osprey 2015) and The Daring Dozen (Osprey 2012) to name just a few of his titles on Special Forces. An award-winning writer whose books have been published on both sides of the Atlantic Gavin has previously written for The Telegraph The Sunday Telegraph The Observer and Esquire magazine.

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