This is the untold, epic story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World WarTwo: the rescue by the SAS of British soldiers held captive by drug-crazed rebel group The West Side Boys in the Sierra Leone jungle.
Extensive interviews with the hostages and the assault forces have produced this blow-by-blow account, in which Lewis recounts the sights, the smells, the fear, the adrenaline rush of combat, and the soul-shattering confrontations.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Author's Note
Prologue
Capture
Training's Off
Taken Hostage
Rescue Mission
Soldiers of Fortune
The Nightmare Begins
Get the Brits
Dances with Death
This Means War
Lottery of Freedom
Virgin Warriors
The Siege of the Gimp
Riverine Assault
No Escape
Op Certain Death
The Killing Game
The Dead Zone
Proof of Life
Dawn Raiders
A Rude Awakening
Chicken Run
In for the Kill
Salvation
Ten Men Down
Time for a Brew
Return of the Jedi
Endgame
Postscript
Afterword
Appendix 1: Analysis
Appendix 2: Call Signs
Appendix 3: Chronology of the
hostage crisis
Appendix 4: Chronology of Sierra Leone
Glossary
Quotation Acknowledgements