Target Basra. Mike Rossiter

by Mike Rossiter

Book Overview

In the dead of night on 20 March 2003, Royal Navy Marines from 40 and 42 Commando board a fleet of twenty helicopters. With faces blackened and mouths dry at the thought of what lies ahead, they have been given the job of capturing the oil pipelines and pumping stations through which 90 per cent of Iraq's oil is exported, to seal off the whole of the Faw peninsula and hold it against any counter-attack by the Iraqi Army. They will be the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552157007
• ISBN13: 9780552157001
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Corgi Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.8"