Download or read book Marine H SBS The Burma Offensive written by Ian Blake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over eighty years the SBS have sailed into the face of danger. Responsible for quick strikes, reconnaissance, and counter-terrorism, they are the world's foremost marine special forces unit. The SBS risk their lives at sea and on land, undertaking the most dangerous missions. 1943, Burma. Fresh from his exploits with the unit in the Mediterranean, Sergeant 'Tiger' Tiller and his SBS comrades are now deployed in Burma, striking at the Japanese supply lines, including deep inside Burmese territory. Tiller must use the SBS's most potent new weapon – the Midget Submarine – to strike at the heart of the Japanese campaign.
Download or read book Marine L SBS written by Ian Blake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, Roger 'Jumbo' Pountney is ordered to form and train a small group of canoeists. Taking as his paddler and second-in-command Lieutenant Philip Ayton of the Royal Marines, they command a body of men, known as No.1 Special Boat Section, who are as ruthless and independent as any that fought in World War II. They employ Folbot kayaks to get ashore from submarines to attack vital enemy targets in the Mediterranean and in these hazardous clandestine operations, skill and stealth count just as much as bravery. It is in the midst of these battles that the reputation of the legendary SBS would be forged. Based on early SBS missions undertaken during World War II, this is classic military fiction at its best.
Download or read book Marine K SBS written by Jay Garnet and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barents Sea, 1942. After a German attack, HMS Edinburgh sinks into the icy depths with over five tons of Russian gold aboard, leaving boy seaman Mike Cox as one of the survivors. Forty years later, after a successful career in the Special Boat Squadron and then as a top commercial diver, Cox is obsessed with the dream of raising the treasure from its watery grave. His own plans thwarted, he is blackmailed by a greedy American arms dealer into infiltrating an intergovernmental operation to salvage the gold. Caught in a deadly trap, his only hope may be the men of his old unit: the legendary SBS. This is classic military fiction at its best.
Download or read book First Into Action written by Duncan Falconer and published by Lume Books. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First into Action tells how Duncan Falconer trained with the Royal Marines before being recruited into the SBS. The ruthless training is graphically described, as are accounts of operations in Ulster, Bosnia and the Gulf War. It is the first Special Boat Services memoir written from the inside.
Download or read book Marine H SBS written by Ian Blake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from the 1943 Aegean Campaign, explosives expert Sergeant Colin 'Tiger' Tiller of the Royal Marines, is selected to undergo covert training in a one-man midget submarine fitted with a newly modified, specialist weapon. Posted to the Far East he enrolls in the Special Boat Section, where he set about ruthlessly destroying Japanese supply ships among the crocodile-infested mangrove swamps along the Arakan coast, raiding enemy-held islands, and employing his deadly skills on Burma's Irrawaddy River. There he receives special orders to use the midget submarine in his most dangerous raid yet... Marine H SBS: The Burma Offensive - based on real operations mounted during World War II- recounts the death-defying exploits of a group of highly trained individuals pitted against the armed might of the Japanese Empire. This is classic military fiction at its best.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to the U S Special Ops Forces written by Marc Cerasini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the face of modern US warfare in the 21st century. The US Special Operations Forces will be at the forefront of every battle that the US will wage against the war on terrorism.
Download or read book Illustrated Directory of Special Forces written by Ray Bonds and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go inside the elite and often-covert world of today's Special Forces. Superbly trained, these special operations commandos are the world's ultimate military (and para-military) tacticians. Learn about their stealthy organization, their training, uniforms and equipment, and their specially developed weapons. Fabulously illustrated with dramatic action photos, this timely reference highlights both the need for and the rapid deployment of today's Special Forces. See them in action!
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Inside the Elite Forces written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to American and British special forces, covering all aspects of their equipment, training and deployment in the Iraq age of warfare. It takes a special kind of person to join the Special Forces and those to pass the stringent entrance requirements are subjected to the most rigorous training. They're trained to be super-fit, taught to survive in the most adverse conditions, and turned into killing machines. This book reveals what makes these men tick, and everything you need to know to become one of them. It covers all the types of training required - for fitness, combat, survival, navigation, communication, infiltration, interrogation, extraction and evasion. And it details the full array of weapons used, from small arms and knives to explosives and air back-up. Also included are full listings of all the units - including the SAS, Green Berets, SBS, Navy SEALs, Delta Force, Army Rangers - and their deployment in present-day conflicts such as Desert Storm, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and anti-terrorist operations.
Download or read book Pet Business written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Silent Deep written by James Jinks and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented co-operation from the Service itself and privileged access to documents and personnel, The Silent Deep is the first authoritative history of the Submarine Service from the end of the Second World War to the present. It gives the most complete account yet published of the development of Britain's submarine fleet, its capabilities, its weapons, its infrastructure, its operations and above all - from the testimony of many submariners and the first-hand witness of the authors - what life is like on board for the denizens of the silent deep. Dramatic episodes are revealed for the first time: how HMS Warspite gathered intelligence against the Soviet Navy's latest ballistic-missile-carrying submarine in the late 1960s; how HMS Sovereign made what is probably the longest-ever trail of a Soviet (or Russian) submarine in 1978; how HMS Trafalgar followed an exceptionally quiet Soviet 'Victor III', probably commanded by a Captain known as 'the Prince of Darkness', in 1986. It also includes the first full account of submarine activities during the Falklands War. But it was not all victories: confrontations with Soviet submarines led to collisions, and the extent of losses to UK and NATO submarine technology from Cold War spy scandals are also made more plain here than ever before. In 1990 the Cold War ended - but not for the Submarine Service. Since June 1969, it has been the last line of national defence, with the awesome responsibility of carrying Britain's nuclear deterrent. The story from Polaris to Trident - and now 'Successor' - is a central theme of the book. In the year that it is published, Russian submarines have once again been detected off the UK's shores. As Britain comes to decide whether to renew its submarine-carried nuclear deterrent, The Silent Deep provides an essential historical perspective.
Download or read book Dirty Deeds Done Cheap written by Peter Mercer and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete Mercer takes us on an unforgettable journey through the dangerous backstreets of 21st-century Iraq, and reveals that the realities of the ongoing War on Terror are not all that they seem.Northern Iraq, 2004 - a lawless region so dangerous the regular coalition armies were reluctant to put their soliders in harm's way. Enter the 'civilian contractors': private armies in all but name. Working alongside the US Army, men from all corners of the globe volunteered to risk their lives day after day fighting someone else's war - and all for a few bucks and a suntan...One of these mercenaries was Pete Mercer. An ex-Royal Marine and former member of the navy's elite SBS, Pete's been to some pretty hot places but even he didn't know what to expect. During 15 months of high-tempo missions putting him literally right on the firing line, the frenetic life of the mercenary changed from one week to the next. Only the constants remained: dirt, danger, excitement, and the ever-present gallows humour in the face of huge casualty rates. Sent on suicidal runs designed to draw out the enemy insurgents, Pete's team were expendable men, charged with making the hard yards on behalf of the most sophisticated army in the world. Any when the orders started coming right from the top - from the CIA itself - things really started to heat up...
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Download or read book Wings But No Angel written by C.K Smith and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wings But No Angel details Ken Smith's remarkable journey from choirboy on HMS Victory to the Royal Marines and then the Special Air Service/ Special Boat Service. Ken saw action on the North Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean convoys before volunteering for the SAS and being involved in some of its most celebrated battles of WW2. During the Villa Punta raid in Yugoslavia, he was wounded and carried a bullet in his shoulder for the rest of his life. Five weeks later, he was part of a specially selected 18-man force in Operation Fry, during which the regiment's sole Victoria Cross was posthumously awarded to his officer, Anders Lassen. Wings But No Angel is not just a story about the SAS. It is about Ken's formative years that enabled him to become part of a legendary fighting force and the lasting impact WW2 had on him. It charts his tough transition from a special forces soldier to civilian life. Written by one of his ten children this book is informative, entertaining and at times darkly humorous as it highlights the personal story behind the action.
Download or read book List and Station of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps on the Active List and Officers on the Retired List Employed on Active Duty written by United States. Navy Dept and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Piece Vol 81 written by Eiichiro Oda and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Straw Hat crew is reunited again in Zou, but this animal kingdom is already in a state of collapse when Luffy gets there. As the mystery of the events that transpired on Zou is slowly unraveled, new questions arise about Sanji’s background... -- VIZ Media
Download or read book United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor Recipients written by George B. Clark and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medal of Honor is considered the ultimate sign of courage and devotion above and beyond the call of duty. This reference book (a repeat of an edition first published by McFarland in 2005) presents all 296 United States Marines (and one Coast Guardsman, 21 United States Navy corpsmen and doctors and a chaplain, who served Marines in combat) who were awarded the Medal of Honor from 1861 to May 2003. Such men as Sergeant Richard Binder, whose good command led to the planting of a flag on rebel fortifications at Fort Fisher in 1865, and Lance Corporal Kenneth L. Worley, who in 1968 sacrificed himself to save his comrades from a grenade in Vietnam are honored. A preface traces the evolution of the medal, its rewards, and its requirements. Each of the 318 entries (arranged within periods) includes biographical information, the actions that earned the award, and other relevant details. Appendices list the numbers of winners born in and accredited to each state or nation, a chronology of awards, and a breakdown of statistics showing the numbers of Marines killed earning the Medal of Honor in each war.
