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18 Hours - The True Story of an SAS War Hero (Hardcover)
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18 Hours - The True Story of an SAS War Hero (Hardcover)
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SAS signalman Jock Wallace was pumped. It was the start of
Operation Anaconda, the US-led military offensive designed to flush
out and destroy Al-Qaeda and the Taliban from their last stronghold
in the notorious Shai Kot valley in Afghanistan. Jock was riding
into battle alongside 80 troops of the US Army's 10th Mountain
Division. If intelligence reports were correct, there were between
100 and 250 enemy fighters holed up in the extensive cave network
buried in the mountain ridges around the valley. But reports can be
wrong. Minutes after the combat-ready troops stormed down the rear
ramps of the Chinook helicopters, Jock's company came under heavy
fire from the high ground overlooking their position in a dry
riverbed. Pinned down by nearly 1000 enemy fighters in what was
later nicknamed Hell's Halfpipe, Jock and his American comrades
stared eventual death in the face. Eighteen relentless hours of
hell were just beginning. With machine-gun bullets kicking up the
dust and rock around their feet, mortars and rocket-propelled
grenades bursting among them, and with a quarter of the troops
sustaining injuries, it seemed that the soldiers had been cut off
and trapped. But there was no way Jock was going down without a
fight. Nor were the men he was with. Holding off the enemy at close
range, rescuing the injured, dodging the bullets, counterattacking
alone, reporting to base, calling up air support - Jock gave all
that he had, and more. And as dusk and the enemy began to close in,
he was determined he was not going to die on foreign soil, not at
the hands of al Qaeda...This is the gripping true story of how an
elite SAS soldier fought the fight of his life against the world's
deadliest terrorists in the most dangerous corner on earth and came
out victorious, a saviour to his fellow troops and a decorated hero
in his homeland. It is the clearest account yet of one of the
fiercest engagements in the history of the special forces war on
terror.
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