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SAS: The Ambush
- Author
- Tony Hoare
- Narrator
- George Reid
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 11 September 2025
- Run Time
- 6 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Sierra Leone, 2000.
While on patrol as part of a peacekeeping mission, eleven British soldiers are kidnapped.
The captors are a dangerous rebel group known as the West Side Boys. Fuelled by alcohol and drugs, the behaviour of the rebels is notoriously unpredictable. How long the soldiers have, no one knows. Rescuing them becomes the British military's highest priority, and so they bring in the SAS for Operation Barras, a mission that will go down in special forces history.
After negotiations break down, there are fears that the men being held in the compound could be executed at any moment, but there is no easy way in to save them. The only option is to shock the enemy on their home turf. A plan is put in place. The ambush begins.
Told from the perspectives of multiple people involved in the operation, and with Tony Hoare's expert insight into the forces, this is a heart-pounding retelling of one of the SAS's most dangerous missions.
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- Author
- Tony Hoare
- Narrator
- George Reid
- Duration
- 6 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035419623
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Military history, Modern warfare, True war and combat stories
Synopsis
'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabSierra Leone, 2000.While on patrol as part of a peacekeeping mission, eleven British soldiers are kidnapped.The captors are a dangerous rebel group known as the West Side Boys. Fuelled by alcohol and drugs, the behaviour of the rebels is notoriously unpredictable. How long the soldiers have, no one knows. Rescuing them becomes the British military's highest priority, and so they bring in the SAS for Operation Barras, a mission that will go down in special forces history.After negotiations break down, there are fears that the men being held in the compound could be executed at any moment, but there is no easy way in to save them. The only option is to shock the enemy on their home turf. A plan is put in place. The ambush begins.Told from the perspectives of multiple people involved in the operation, and with Tony Hoare's expert insight into the forces, this is a heart-pounding retelling of one of the SAS's most dangerous missions.
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