SAS: The First Secret Wars: The Unknown Years of Combat and Counter-Insurgency

by Tim Jones

Overview

The covert, clandestine operations of the Special Air Service (SAS), from the jungles of Malaya, Borneo and Brunei to the deserts and mountains of the Middle East, have been widely documented. There has always been intense fascination in the SAS, stoked by the regiment's "closed" organization and secretive activities. But no period of activity has remained more secret than the vital years after World War II when the regiment seemingly expired, only to rise miraculously from the dead to fight Communism in the Malaya emergency. Tim Jones' history pieces together the evidence to show that while the Malaya emergency re-established the SAS as a unique source of counter-guerilla expertise, the regiment lived on and was covertly involved in the Greek Civil War of 1945-49, a war unmatched in savagery until the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860646768
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/2005
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Tim Jones did his PhD research at the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, followed by lecturing at the University of Liverpool Department of International Relations and now works in jourbanalism.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• Towards a New Beginning
• A Life-line in Greece
• Fighting for Survival on Two Fronts
• The SAS International Squadron - bending the rules in Greece
• 'Too Funny to be True' - the Middle East angers (SAS)
• Fighting for Corps Status
• Korea - the war that never was?
• Malaya - heart, minds and winged dagger
• The SAS Family