An excellent read and a must for anyone interested in an in-depth look at the Special Air Service operation on Pebble Island. Was it a similar deal when you were celebrating your successful mission to release the hostages from the Iranian Embassy in London and Margaret Thatcher came to visit you? Peter Davis was a young officer who joined the SAS at the end of 1942 and served with the regiment throughout the rest of the war. Shortly after the end of the war he wrote an account of operations in Sicily and Italy based on his diaries but for decades his memoir remained unpublished. In 2015, twenty years after Davis’s death, his son published his father’s memoir, providing readers with a vivid picture of operations in the Mediterranean, although contrary to the subtitle, Davis was not an SAS ‘Original’, the collective name given to the first 66 recruits of the regiment in the summer of 1941. Davis was particularly strong in conveying the physical and temperamental characteristics of his fellow soldiers. Of the great and fearsome Paddy Mayne, he wrote: ” Under great jutting eyebrows, his piercing blue eyes looked discomfortingly at me, betraying his remarkable talent of being able to sum a person up within a minute of meeting him.” He also notes that while the history of the SAS is a “rattling adventure story,” he sought to reveal the “psychology of secret, unconventional warfare,” and the “reactions of ordinary people in extraordinary wartime circumstances.” Above all, he notes, “This is a book about the meaning of courage.” In real life, it is true that leaving the Regiment for civvy street is often the hardest thing these men will do.

I was totally immersed from the get-go with Major Pete and his SAS team starting with their covert operations in Cambodia till the final chapter on the Islamic terrorists on Aussie soil . This is precisely the sort of the thing their training and selection is designed for – the SAS only wants men with that level of mental strength.A controversial examination of the events as told by McNab and Ryan in their memoirs. Asher, a former territorial SAS member, repudiates the more gung ho aspects of the B20 myth with eye witness accounts from Iraqis. First and Foremost ,” the SAS Deniables “ was one of those books that I didn’t want to finish and limited my reading content to a few chapters per sitting . Well, it’s typical SAS – let’s get down the pub and get pissed. Once you are on the booze you can tell us the story down there! So that is basically what happens. This is an excellent book all about survival. That is the survival of the human spirit against adversity. When the chips were down Andy and the other men with him had to escape and evade detection across hundreds of miles of open desert in the extreme cold before they could get to safety. And they weren’t really equipped for that kind of harsh weather.

This book offers a step-by-step explanation of how to create machine learning models for any industry. If you want to learn how to think like a data scientist, wrangle messy code, choose a model, and evaluate models in SAS, then this book has the information that you need to be a successful data scientist. As a veteran of “rat patrol” dramatizations, I was glad to note how fair and balanced Macintyre makes his book. There is no attempt to make the S.A.S. more than it was – a very limited number of action-oriented soldiers who were willing to go into high-risk situations and create havoc. Many of them were captured and not treated well. Many of them had narrow escapes. There is almost universal contempt for the tiny number of former troopers who try to become celebrities and make big money from publicising their (often imaginary) exploits. He was a teenage paratrooper at the Battle of Goose Green in the Falklands and applied for the SAS soon after. With correct timing and in suitable country, with or without the help of the local population, a small specially trained force can achieve results out of all proportion to its numbers."Highlight: 'It's a must-buy for enthusiasts of special forces or secret operations.' Britain at War I thoroughly the enjoyed each geographical SAS adventure and this made the book even more interesting per the many SAS missions and in the great detail of each mission per all the lead and supporting characters . The book is told through the eyes of an SBS veteran with the moniker, 'Grey', who commands a Pinkie driven by 'Moth' and its HMG manned a U.S. SOF embed known as 'the dude'.

Only 21 of 55 men return from the mission, having never fired a shot or caused any damage. Things go better later and the SAS grows into a formidable force, striking from the shadows and disappearing into the vast deserts. The men and the stories are epic, daring, crazy. Toward the end of the desert campaign, Stirling is captured by the Germans as he tries to link up with the US forces from Operation Torch. This had a major, negative impact on the SAS in the Italian campaign. A compact but fact-filled book which charts SAS history from World War 2 all the way until the current war on terror. There's plenty of colour photos throughout, along with little snippets of info on weapons, tactics etc, which makes this a great resource for dipping into every now and then.This book looking at the Australian unit is long overdue in giving the Australian SAS some well deserved praise. This was an informative book about the SAS, the British Special Air Service, formed in WWII, in North Africa. It was the brainchild of David Stirling, an eccentric Scottish aristocrat who was not a very good soldier in the traditional sense. But his offbeat, unusual mind came up with the idea of a small mobile force that go behind German lines and wreak havoc on the unprepared Afrika Corps.