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First Into Action: A Dramatic Personal Account of Life Inside the SBS
Duncan Falconer
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Description for First Into Action: A Dramatic Personal Account of Life Inside the SBS
Paperback. Compulsive insider's account of life within the units who often prepare the ground for the SAS - the Special Boat Services, the SBS. The SBS follow the same basic training as the SAS and then do it again - under water! Num Pages: 448 pages, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGA; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 322.
The SBS was first into battle a month before the SAS in the Falklands War and again in the Gulf War, yet hitherto it is the SAS that has had by far the higher profile. The SBS draws its manpower solely from the Marine Commando Units, and the Royal Marines are the oldest and most battle-honoured regiment in the world. FIRST INTO ACTION is the first Special Boat Services memoir written from the inside. It tells how Duncan Falconer trained with the Royal Marines in Deal before being recruited into the SBS at Poole in Dorset. ... Read more
The SBS was first into battle a month before the SAS in the Falklands War and again in the Gulf War, yet hitherto it is the SAS that has had by far the higher profile. The SBS draws its manpower solely from the Marine Commando Units, and the Royal Marines are the oldest and most battle-honoured regiment in the world. FIRST INTO ACTION is the first Special Boat Services memoir written from the inside. It tells how Duncan Falconer trained with the Royal Marines in Deal before being recruited into the SBS at Poole in Dorset. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
293g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751531657
SKU
V9780751531657
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Ref
99-99
About Duncan Falconer
Duncan Falconer grew up in Battersea in London, spending the first ten years of his life in an orphanage. He became a Special Forces operative at the age of nineteen (it is unlikely there will ever be one as young again). He is now a successful screenwriter in Los Angeles.
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A must for military buffs.
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