Download or read book Marine K SBS Gold Rush written by Jay Garnet and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 219 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. 1981, the Arctic Ocean. Plans are underway to locate the wreck of HMS Edinburgh and the four tons of gold bullion it was carrying when it sank during World War II, The wreck has lain half a mile beneath the waves for forty years. But Mike Stewart's dangerous recovery mission also has political implications in the era of the Cold War...
Download or read book Marine C SBS The Florida Run written by David Monnery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 260 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. 1994, Bahamas. An English doctor disappears without trace. Soon afterwards, a tourist is murdered in Florida. The Americans know the cases are connected, suspecting an infamous drug lord, and Washington D.C. calls in the British government. The SBS are soon dispatched to help cleanse the Caribbean of the international drug trade, in what could be their most crucial mission yet...
Download or read book Marine D SBS Windswept written by Peter Cave and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 233 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. 1984, Greece. From their secret military base on a Greek island, the SBS must use all their skills to evade the might of the Soviet navy in a secret mission – a mission that could start a bloody and devastating war in the Middle East if things don't go to plan...
Download or read book Marine B SBS written by Ian Blake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943 Sergeant 'Tiger' Tiller was already a seasoned veteran and a surviving member of the 'Cockleshell Heroes'. However, his war was far from over as he joined the newly formed detachment of the Special Boat Section led by Captain Magnus Larseen in the islands of the Aegean. There they would conduct a perilous, piratical war, using guns, knives and their bare hands to battle the might of the German Wehrmacht. Slipping from island to island they would call upon all their resourcefulness, courage and daring to defeat the enemy. This is classic military fiction at its best.
Download or read book Marine L SBS Raiders from the Sea written by Ian Blake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 257 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. 1940, Britain. Following the evacuation of Dunkirk, an elite naval team is selected for training. Ready for dangerous, harrowing missions, the operatives are the first intake of the Special Boat Section – the origins of the legendary SBS. Their mission: to defeat the enemy, on land or at sea, by whatever means at their disposal. A thrilling read that take you right to the foundation of the SBS in the midst of World War Two.
Download or read book Marine I SBS Escape from Azerbaijan written by David Monnery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 260 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. 1995, the Caspian Sea. Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq is rumoured to have new nuclear technology. The source of the rumours, an Iraqi scientist, disappears – but when a British scientist also goes missing from a project on the Caspian Sea in the former Soviet state of Azerbaijan, the SBS must investigate, whatever the cost – or risk the prospect of nuclear war...
Download or read book Marine J SBS The East African Mission written by Peter Corrigan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 189 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. 1975, Uganda. With brutal dictator Idi Amin in power, SBS operatives must undertake a secret mission in tandem with MI6 to prevent Amin's invasion of Tanzania succeeding. Can the SBS and the Intelligence services work successfully to prevent Amin's violent plans?
Download or read book Marine A SBS Terrorism on the North Sea written by Shaun Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 209 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. 1982, North Sea. IRA operatives plan to sabotage the North Sea oilfield – and the Prime Minister is in danger. The SBS must risk life and limb against the terrorists and the might of the open waves, or the political impact could be devastating – and the security of the UK could be destroyed forever...
Download or read book Marine E SBS The Hong Kong Gambit written by Doug Armstrong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-12 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. 1990s Hong Kong. With Britain about to cede control of Hong Kong to the Chinese, SBS operative Des Cooper is in town, taking part in anti-smuggling operations with the locals. But when rumours of a far-fetched plot to steal nuclear warheads prove true, Cooper and his SBS team must do their utmost to prevent all-out catastrophe.
Download or read book Marine F SBS Royal Target written by Robin James and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 189 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. 1995, Spain. The Princess of Wales is enjoying a holiday in Catalonia when she becomes the target of an international terrorist's vengeance. With the Princess kidnapped, can the SBS rescue her in time – or will their tried and tested methods fail against the wily and battle-hardened terrorist leader?
Download or read book Marine G SBS written by David Monnery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South China Sea, 1995. Pirates rule the waves and ships are disappearing in deadly ocean blackspots. To combat these cut-throats, a SBS team is sent to Singapore to play a game of high-stakes hide-and-seek across the tropical seas, picking up a trail which leads them north towards Hong Kong. Meanwhile, as the Communist Chinese takeover looms for the British colony, Inspector Rosalie Kai is investigating a barbaric cross-border trade in unwanted female babies. Soon both she and the SBS team find themselves in the underworld jungle up against a criminal organization that stretches from one end of the South China Sea to the other, fighting rogue elements of the Indonesian Army, corrupt policemen, and the foot soldiers of the fearsome Triads. This is classic military fiction at its best.
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 Lost Victory written by Raj K. Mehta and published by Pentagon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has studied the over 30-year-old Sri Lankan conflict with detachment will perhaps agree that not other phrase can define the Prabhakaran conundrum better than "Lost Victory". He had almost succeeded in his goal of getting a Tamil Eelam with most of his conditions agreed to by the Sri Lankan Government.
Download or read book World Heritage written by Simon C. Woodward and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Heritage: Concepts, Management and Conservation presents an insight into discussions and debates surrounding the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the properties on it. Since its creation 50 years ago, the World Heritage Convention has been lauded as one of the most successful international expressions of cooperation, whilst at the same time being widely criticised as producing an overly commercialised and globalised sense of heritage. Offering an in-depth discussion of both sides of the debate, this book explores these issues by discussing the following topics: • How the World Heritage Convention was conceived and how it is operationalised; • How the World Heritage concept is currently being used and misused; • The benefits of inscription – perceived and actual existential threats faced by World Heritage Site managers including climate change, urban development, overtourism, military action and natural disaster; • The future of World Heritage as an instrument for conservation and economic development. Case studies from a global range of World Heritage Sites are included throughout, to showcase some of the successes and also missuses of World Heritage status. This book will be of pivotal interest to students and scholars in the fields of tourism, heritage, archaeology, natural resource management and development studies.
Download or read book Relentless written by Dean Stott and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Stott made a mistake that he was certain was going to cost him his life. As a former Special Operations soldier, this was not his first mission in Yemen. Yet although he was appropriately dressed head-to-toe as a local, he had neglected to put in brown contact lenses. Stott had been compromised. With thoughts of his family racing through his mind, Stott reached below his automobile seat and took hold of his weapon. In a gripping retelling of his life story to date, Stott shares insight into his esteemed military career in the British army where he conducted deployments to hostile environments, worked within counterterrorism operations in some of the most dangerous places in the world, and survived a horrific parachute accident. As he leads others into his experiences, Stott discloses how he continued to fuel his journey of excellence five years after leaving the military by becoming the first man to cycle the Pan American Highway in under one hundred days while raising over a million dollars for mental health awareness charities. Throughout his retelling, Stott offers an inspiring reminder that we all have the capability to use our inner voices, drive, and instincts to become relentless in our pursuits in life. Relentless is the extraordinary true story of Tier One Special Forces soldier, adventurer, and world-record breaker, Dean Stott.
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.
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