Operation Barras: the SAS rescue mission: Sierra Leone 2000

FOWLER William

Operation Barras: the SAS rescue mission: Sierra Leone 2000 - London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 - 214p.

Explains why British armed forces were in Sierra Leone at the beginning of the twenty-first century (supporting a UN peace mission) before detailing the capture of members of the Royal Irish regiment by the West Side Boys militia and the operation by the SAS to secure their release.

0297846280 (hbk.): 16.99 UK


HOSTAGE RESCUE
OPERATION BARRAS
SAS
SIERRA LEONE