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by Johnny Howard (Author) "Three weeks later the four-man team came ashore on the Murrell Peninsula ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (6 Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752811517
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752811512
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 956,417 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most of this story is true; the rest of it so easily could have been. This is the story of what would have happened if the SAS Boat Troop had carried out their daring mission to storm the main Argentine airbase before the Falklands war had ended.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read, 14 Oct 2002
Although this IS a work of fiction, it is based around a real war - the Falklands. It's a fast paced read and the plot centres around a glory hunting Special forces commander and the Troop themselves. The story gives you some idea how the SAS patrolled the Islands and also covers the sinking of a overladen Sea King helicopter. The main action part of the book is right at the end, with an attack of the Rio Grande Airbase. Don't expect of get to know the characters inside out during this book, but you'll understand what a chinesse parliment is.
If you like this type of novel then you won't be dissapointed.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good story but it dragged a bit in the middle, 2 Sep 2000
By duncan.williamson@tesco.net (A Brit in Tbilisi, Georgia) - See all my reviews
Another story centred around the SAS and the Falklands War. I have read a number of Falklands based stories now, mainly autobiographical and biographical accounts. This one is presented in the form of a novel; but despite the disclaimer that it's fiction, there's more to this than meets the eye I'm sure. I don't mean the story here, since this is said to have been based on reality; but the personalities and feelings that come across very strongly.

Overall a good story for those of us who like military tales of derring do. There's warnings that even the best laid plans gang aft aglae: the very first thing that these lad s do starts off badly when their carefully laid plans are disrupted by an enemy soldier having to empty his bladder at an inopportune moment and directly onto one of our heros!

There's lots of swearing, there's lots of anti officer material: well, to be more direct, lots of anti "Rupert" material. A Rupert is a Public School/Oxbridge Officer.

I have to say that despite having enjoyed reading this novel, I think there are many in the SAS, and in the military world generally, who might want this book to flop in terms of sales and availability. I thought many times throughout the book that what I was reading could be cut and pasted into a military manual: what to look out for if you think that the SAS might be somewhere around where you are if there's trouble brewing. I felt this stuff could compromise any Special force, to use the jargon.

Finally, this book more than any other military story of its type may have driven me to read "Rupert's" version of events. I am beginning to be intrigued to start to compare two sides of the same story: Rupert and Trooper.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A SpecFor war story deeply rooted in military history, 9 Aug 2000
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Johnny Howard as in the "Two Combs" I was briefly introduced to in Andy McNab's "Immediate Action" when the latter and Howard where preparing for their upcoming SAS selection course in the Brecon Beacons, has created a fascinating and thrilling Special Forces story taking place in the midst of enemy activity on the Falklands during the British campaign against the Argentinians. Through the character of Sgt. "Blue" Harding the reader is swept through intelligence-gathering patrols which comprises being static in a wet and miserable OP for longer periods of time, long tabs across extremely demanding and difficult terrain in horrendous weather, a tragic accident of the kind so difficult to both plan for and anticipate in a war and the build up-training for a proposed mission so bold and dangerous it threatens to wipe out the whole of B Squadron, SAS.

Furthermore what makes this story so great and also so important is the authenticity of it. The reader is presented with a work of fiction which is based on real historical events and that only adds in a positive way to the reading experience.

Howard has in a unique way created a story where the art of fictional creativity is fusioned with the elements of non-fiction and documentary. He depicts the ever ongoing mistrust between the troopers and their "superior" officers in a elegant and delicate way and lets the reader take part in the many frustrations experienced by some of the parties involved.

Because he joined the Regiment in 1983 Howard missed out on the Falklands as an SAS operative but has through both good research and ten years of operational experience within the unit shown that he is more than capable of putting forth a exceptional debut novel, and this bloke mind you did not start off his writing career by publishing another "no holds barred" and "true story of superhuman endurance and personal sacrifice" no doubt so much easier to write than a captivating work of fiction. Through Boat Troop Howard laid the foundation for a further two fast paced and enthralling works of ficion with "Blue" Harding at the center of the action; "Blood Money" and "Direct Action".

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