Storm Front
The Storming Bestseller from the Author of Harrier 809
Rowland White
- 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.
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