From the abortive plan to murder Hitler, the Iranian Embassy siege in London and the dramatic scud hunt in the Gulf War, to the storming of a hijacked airliner in Marseilles in 1994, this book reports on the covert actions of the world`s most elite special forces from World War II to the present.
Although it focuses principally on Britain`s SAS, the USA`s Delta Force, Seals, Green Berets and Rangers, Germany`s GS9, France`s GIGN and the Australian SAS, the book also covers less well-known organizations, including Britain`s SBS, Spain`s GEO and BOEL and France`s 2REP. Moving between Europe, the USA, South-East Asia, Central America and the Middle East, it gives a wide-ranging account of the origins, development and major undercover operations of special forces, with a detailed examination of their selection procedures and training, weaponry, communications and tactics.