{ "item_title" : "Operation Barras", "item_author" : [" Gary Mitchell "], "item_description" : "Operation Barras: Jungle Rescue is the true story of a dawn raid that turned a jungle camp into a battlefield-and brought British hostages home alive.Sierra Leone, 2000: a civil war fuelled by collapse, corruption, and armed groups that thrive on fear. In the Occra Hills, the West Side Boys aren't a regular army-they're a drug-fired militia with roadblocks, stolen uniforms, and a taste for theatre and cruelty. When a Royal Irish Regiment patrol and their Sierra Leone Army liaison officer, Lt Musa Bangura, blunder into a checkpoint, the rules change instantly. One moment it's a routine movement in a messy war; the next it's captivity-beatings, intimidation, and the slow realisation that the jungle belongs to the men with guns.OP BASOP BASDiplomacy buys time-but not safety. And when it becomes clear the remaining captives could be executed or moved deeper inland, Britain makes a decision that can't be walked back: get our boys out.What follows is Operation Barras-a high-risk hostage rescue that trades silence for shock: Chinooks at first light, fast-ropes into the camp, and violence delivered with speed and discipline. While the SAS hits Gberi Bana, 1 PARA slams into Magbeni to stop reinforcements. The outcome becomes the kind of sentence that writes its own headline: hostages rescued, no helicopters shot down, one British soldier killed-a triumph with an asterisk, and a reminder that success always has a price.OP BASOP BASWritten with thriller pacing and grounded detail, this is a real-world Special Forces mission told as a gripping, scene-driven narrative-from the first trap closing in the hills to the final lift-out under fire.Inside you'll find:The war-torn backdrop that made groups like the West Side Boys possibleThe capture, captivity, and the psychological warfare of negotiationsThe recce work, planning, and the combined-package assault (UKSF + elite infantry)A minute-by-minute raid sequence-then the sober accounting afterwards", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/824/742/9798247422969_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.00", "online_price" : "14.00", "our_price" : "14.00", "club_price" : "14.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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