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Midnight in Some Burning Town tells the story of British SAS operations in Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Iraq, set against a backdrop of international community intervention missions from Bosnia and Somalia to the Middle East.
British Special Forces from the SAS and the SBS have formed the cutting edge of British foreign policy since the mid-1990's. From Kosovo to Sierra Leone, and from Afghanistan to Iraq, the British government has sent Special Forces teams into action. From Iraq to Kosovo, from arrest operations against Balkans war-criminals to SAS teams free-fall parachuting into Afghanistan in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, this book tells the story of how the SAS have operated over the last decade.
book reviews
- Robert Fox - the Evening Standard
"The spills and thrills of the men in the black balaclavas, desert turbans and shamargs dazzle and amaze like the fables of Scheherazade and the Thousand and One Nights." - Phillip Jacobson, the Daily Mail
"An absorbing and authoritative read...timely too, this is a thoughtful and provocative book."
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