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No publicity, no media. We move in silently, do our job, and melt away into the background. If you have the stamina, the willpower and the guts, well welcome you with open arms and you one of us. And if you havent, then its been very nice knowing you.
Eighteen years in the SAS saw Pete Winner, codenamed Soldier I, survive the savage battle of Mirbat, parachute into the icy depths of the South Atlantic at the height of the Falklands War, and storm the Iranian Embassy during the most famous hostage crisis in the modern world.
For the first time Pete also details his close-protection work around the world, from the lawless streets of Moscow to escorting aid convoys into war-torn Bosnia. He also unveils the problems of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder faced by many Special Forces veterans, and how he battled his own demons to continue his roller-coaster career. This is his story, written with a breathtaking take-no-prisoners attitude that brings each death-defying episode vividly to life.

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During the Second World War, David Stirling, founder of the SAS, had just outlined to Field Marshal Montgomery an audacious plan for one single squadron of SAS to penetrate miles behind heavily fortified enemy lines to attack the Tripoli to Tobruk coastal road along a 400mile front. Montgomery paused for a moment, then turned to his staff officers and said: 'Gentleman, the boy Stirling is mad. Quite, quite mad. But in war, there is a place for mad people.'

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THE STORY OF AN SAS HERO

PETE WINNER
MICHAEL PAUL KENNEDY

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First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Osprey Publishing,
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Print ISBN: 978 1 84603 995 9

ePub ebook ISBN: 978 1 84908 650 9

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Foreword

I first met Pete (or Snapper as he was called then) in 1984. I had just joined the SAS at the age of 24, and had been sent out to join the rest of B Squadron in the jungles of South East Asia.

I'd only just been introduced to the rest of the troop and was enjoying a quick brew with them under the canopy, when Snapper and four of his mates came crashing through the jungle, looking for the new boy. It didn't take long for Snapper's torchlight to find me, and from the residual glow of the fire we were brewing our tea on, I got a vague glimpse of him: a tall, bearded guy, with a flat face and a nose broken so badly it seemed to be heading east when he was facing north. His accent was dramatic Northern, and he stretched the last word of the sentence he spat out at me, as he and his mates loomed over me in the darkness. 'You a fookin' Masonnnnnn?'

Snapper was obsessed; he was sure that the Freemasons were infiltrating the Regiment. It had become a running joke the troop had set up a 'lodge' in the jungle, where Snapper and his mates spent their evenings conducting spoof rituals with their trouser legs rolled up. That was my first meeting with the man who'd become Soldier 'I', and fortunately, I was able to reassure him that I hadn't been sent by the Masons on any kind of secret mission. But my first impression of Snapper was that he was as mad as box of frogs, and someone I would do well to keep away from.

The next time I came across Snapper was when our squadron was back in the UK and we were in training to join the counter-terrorist team. I spent quite a lot of time with him during those months as we practised our 'room clearing' skills in the training building in Hereford known within the Regiment as 'The Killing House'. The Killing House was the only place where the Regiment's assault teams were able to fire live ammunition, and it was here where I really began to see Snapper's skills first-hand. Of course, it turned out that there was a whole lot more to Snapper than I had first thought.

Snapper was, and is, a Regimental institution. An outstanding soldier, he was one of the SAS troopers who successfully stormed the Iranian Embassy in 1980. He also played an enormous role in the Falklands War in 1982. If that isn't enough, Snapper was also one of the pioneers of undercover operations in Northern Ireland. He tells it all here in his remarkable book.

But perhaps Snapper's greatest piece of soldiering took place in the battle of Mirbat, which occurred during Operation Storm the secret war fought by the British in Oman in 1972. Over 250 well-armed Communist insurgents attacked the isolated SAS base near the coastal resort of Mirbat, and Snapper (manning the machine gun) together with eight fellow SAS soldiers, chose to fight against overwhelming odds until reinforcements arrived. If the Communists had come to dominate this area, the whole of the Western world would have been held to ransom, since over half of the world's oil passes through the Straits of Hormuze, just off Oman in the Persian Gulf. But the nine men resisted fiercely, and pretty much won the war single-handedly. For this reason, Operation Storm remains one of the most famous actions ever carried out by the SAS, and to this day, is one of the Regiment's proudest moments.

But Snapper's skills don't stop there. Many of the undercover techniques that he helped to develop are still used by the Regiment today in their anti-terrorist operations. They certainly helped me tremendously during my two years in Northern Ireland as an undercover operator.

Snapper is a true innovator, and really pushed the boundaries of soldiering within the Regiment. It was always him who would say, 'Let's try it a different way,' or, 'Hang on a minute, what if we do it like this instead?' There's a real creativity to the art of combat, and Snapper has it in spades. Not only during training back in Hereford, but also out in the field where it really counts. Without people like Snapper, the Regiment would not be the same professional fighting force it is today.

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