SAS Operation Storm: Nine Men Against Four Hundred

How many are they? The reply came in the finest traditions of accurate situation reporting, f***ing hundreds of them! Mirbat, South Oman, July 19, 1972 is one of the leastknown yet most crucial battles of modern times. SAS Operation Storm is the inside storytold by those who took partof the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point was Mirbat, a secret battle which defines the world we all live in today. If the SAS had been defeated at Mirbat, the Russian and Chinese plan for a communist foothold in the Middle East would have succeeded, with catastrophic consequences for the oilhungry West. This is a pageturning account of courage and resilience. Mirbat was a battle fought and won by nine SAS soldiers and a similar number of brave local peoplesome as young as ten years oldoutnumbered by at least twenty five to one. Thousands of bullets, rockets, shells, mortars, and grenades were fired in a six hour firefight of staggering intensity, the tipping point in a clandestine war which went unreported at the time. Roger Cole, one of the SAS soldiers who took part, and writer Richard Belfield have interviewed every SAS survivor who fought in the battle from the beginning to the endthe first time every single one of them has revealed their experience. The authors have also talked to many other survivors from both sides, including the pilots who flew with the SAS, the SAS soldiers who joined the battle towards the end, and some of the insurgents who fought against them. SAS Operation Storm is a classic story of bravery against impossible oddsminute by minute, bullet by bullet.