Used, good condition, hard cover with dust jacket.This is the first time the full story of Britain\'s toughest and most secret regiment has ever been written. The men of the SAS started with raids in the Western Desert and Mediterranean, where they specialised in destroying aircraft on the ground; they moved on to Sicily, where they went in ahead of the landings, and on to the Aegean and the Adriatic, where small SAS forces tied down whole German divisions. They took part in the liberation of Athens, where their Commanding Officer rode in first on a bicycle, and passed on to Italy and France, where they set up headquarters behind the enemy lines, to Belgium, Holland and Germany, where they were always ahead of the armies. After 1945 they undertook deep probes into the jungles of Malaya and Borneo, developing the art of parachuting into trees and living for months on end in swamps. They also took part in operations in Southern Africa, and developed entirely new techniques of training. The book is an immensely exciting, almost incredible story of the regiment from 1941 to 1971, on land, sea and air.The dust jacket has creasing to the top and bottom edges and wear to the corners, there are two small tears of around 7mm each, one at the bottom front corner and one about half way up the front opening edge. The hard cover has a little bumping to the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. However, the binding is sound and the pages are all clean and unmarked. The book contains a good number of black and white photographs.