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1 Barrie Pitt Special Boat Squadron: The Story of the SBS in the Mediterranean
London Century 1983 0-7126-0108-2 / 9780712601085 Reprint Hard Back Near Fine  Near Fine History 
Binding is black cloth with silver lettering to spine; 212 pages including the index and several sections of black and white photographs. A previous owner's black and gold name and address label to top right hand corner of opening page, otherwise fine. Only since the Falklands campaign have the initials SBS become known to the general public. Yet this most clandestine formation of Britain's armed forces has been in existance since the Second World War. The Special Boat Squadrons were formed in 1941 to carry out amphibious raids and landings in France and North Africa. During World War II they served with distinction against the Germans in the Aegean, the Adriatic and in Italy. They raided the Aegean Islands - one of these raids provided the basis for Alistair MacLean's The Guns of Navarone - harried the retreating Germans through Greece and spearheaded the Commando attack across Lake Comacchio. Like the SAS the SBS was disbanded when the war ended. But its demise was only temporary. Post-war strategists soon recognised the need for specialist "small boat" units trained to carry on the traditions of the Royal Marines' "Cockleshell Heroes" who raided German shipping at Bordeaux, or the men who paddled ashore from submarines to prepare for the D_Day landings. The SBS was accordingly reformed as the Special Boat Section (later Squadron) and has played an important, if shadowy, role in post-war operations in Korea, Borneo, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. Modern technology has undoubtedly increased the difficulties and dangers these highly specialised teams must face, but modern technology has also helped to overcome them. What remains the same are the essential tasks - infiltration from the sea, reconnaissance and observation, sabotage and demolition, survival, resistance to interrogation, escape from captivity - and the expertise and determination to comlete them.  
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