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Operation Barras: The SAS Rescue Mission, Sierra Leone 2000. By William Fowler. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. ISBN 0-297-84628-0. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 214. £16.99.
On 25 August 2000, eleven men of the Royal Irish Regiment led by Major Alan Marshall were seized in Sierra Leone by a group of local militia known as the "West Side Boys". The British soldiers were part of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone, the "West Side Boys" young thugs brutalized...