Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0DGV6SXY3 | 2025 | 11 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Mark Urban
Narrator: Mark Urban
In 2007, after almost 40 years of operations, the SAS ceased operations in Northern Ireland and ended the longest operational commitment in the unit's history. It had been a brutal and ruthless conflict on both sides with the SAS famously describing its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big Boys' Rules'. Anyone suspect caught with a gun or bomb could expect to be shot without question. Starting in 1969, Mark Urban reveals the extraordinary history of the special forces' operations in Northern Ireland and the unenviable dilemmas faced by intelligence chiefs engaged in a daily struggle against one of the world's most sophisticated terrorist organisations.