A Dangerous Enterprise
Secret War at Sea
$62.71
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
7 March 2022
Summary
In A Dangerous Enterprise, Tim Spicer charts the history of this little-known, yet remarkable flotilla. Commanded directly by the Secret Intelligence Service, the 15th MGBF was an extraordinary group of men thrown together in the most secret of adventures.
Between 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100 miles, every yard of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781999589134 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1999589130 |
| Author: | Tim Spicer |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Barbreck Publishers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 756g |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 169mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library Barbreck |
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About The Author
Tim Spicer
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer OBE has led a life filled with action and adventure. During his twenty years in the British Army he saw active service in Northern Ireland, the Falklands campaign, the Gulf War and the Balkans, as well as serving in the Far East, Cyprus and Germany. Key appointments have included Chief of Staff of an Armoured Brigade, Staff Officer at the Directorate of Special Forces and Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, among many others.
Over the course of his illustrious military career, Spicer has developed extensive knowledge of intelligence, counter-terrorism, complex relations and protective security. In 2001 he founded the private security company Aegis, which has counted the UK, US and Italian governments among its clients.
He is the author of:
- An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair (2000) – a fast-moving account of his military life, including the events surrounding his time in Papua New Guinea when he was captured and held at gunpoint, as well as the notorious ‘Sandline Affair’ of 1996.
- A Dangerous Enterprise (2021) – that charts the history of the little-known, yet remarkable 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla, commanded directly by the Secret Intelligence Service.
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