The Special Air Service (SAS) is Britain's elite special force unit, with the famous `who dares wins' motto. This is the story of the SAS's activities in Italy during the Second World War. Parachute troops operated behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy aircraft, and attack strategic targets-in the process winning many battle honours.
This is the story of Britain's elite special force in Italy during the Second World War. In the summer of 1943 the SAS came out of Africa to carry the fight to the Germans and Fascists in Sicily and the mainland.