Book description
In early 1970, the Commanding Officer of 22 SAS flew into the
strategically critical Sultanate of Oman on a covert intelligence
mission to monitor a Communist rebellion threatening the Arabian
Peninsula. Within six months, the Regiment arrived in theatre to lead
a fierce, secret war against the rebels, reinforced by an elite band
of RAF pilots flying out of a remote airbase in the desert.
But for the British soldiers and airmen, it was to be no easy
victory. And despite confronting the largest assault force ever
deployed by the SAS, many months later the enemy were still far from
beaten. Something had to give.
Then at dawn on July 19th, 1972, and without warning, a force of
nearly 300 heavily armed, well-trained guerillas attacked the little
fishing port of Mirbat. Between them and glory stood a team of just
nine SAS men, aided only by the skill of the fighter pilots overhead.
It was to be an epic encounter; a modern day Rorke's Drift. Their
heroism that day would become SAS legend.
Rowland White
lives in London with his wife and three children, and works in
publishing.
