Regiment (Hardcover)

by Michael Asher (Author) "In July 1941, the British in Cairo felt they had been granted a reprieve ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 624 pages
Publisher: Viking UK (Nov 27 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670916331
ISBN-13: 978-0670916337
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 4.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
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Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #97,049 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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On 4 May 1980, seven terrorists holding twenty-one people captive in the Iranian Embassy in London's Prince's Gate, executed their first hostage. They threatened to kill another hostage every thirty minutes until their demands were met. Minutes later, armed men in black overalls and balaclavas shimmied down the roof on ropes and burst in through windows and doors. In seconds all but one of the terrorists had been shot dead, the other captured.

For most people, this was their first acquaintance with a unit that was soon to become the ideal of modern military excellence -- the Special Air Service regiment. Few realized that the SAS had been in existence for almost forty years, playing a discreet, if not secret, role almost everywhere Britain had fought since World War II, and had been the prototype of all modern special forces units throughout the world.

In The Regiment, Michael Asher -- a former soldier in 23 SAS Regiment -- examines the evolution of the special forces idea and investigates the real story behind the greatest military legend of the late twentieth century.

About the Author

Michael Asher has served in the Parachute Regiment and the SAS, and studied English at the University of Leeds. He has made expeditions in many countries, always preferring to travel on foot or with animal transport. He lived for three years with a Bedu tribe totally unaffected by the outside world and, with his wife, Arabist and photographer Mariantonietta Peru, made the first west-east crossing of the Sahara on foot with camels - a distance of 4,500 miles - without technology or back-up of any kind.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has won both the Ness Award of the Royal Geographical Society and the Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for Exploration. In 1997 he and Mariantonietta Peru presented the documentary In Search of Lawrence for Channel 4, which was watched by 2.4 million people. Michael Asher has travelled a total of 16,000 miles by camel and is the author of eight books. Of these, Penguin publish Shoot to Kill: A Soldier's Journey Through Violence, Thesiger: A Biography and the Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth. Michael Asher's latest book is The Regiment: The Real Story of the SAS (Penguin 2007).

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