After heavy editing by the MoD and Foreign Office, the story of this secret war was revealed in "SAS Operation Oman", written by the SAS commander, Colonel Tony Jeapes. Still used as a textbook at the Army Staff College, Camberley, it reveals how small teams of elite soldiers took on a dedicated guerrilla army and destroyed it. While the US Army was losing its very public war in Vietnam, the SAS fought in complete secrecy, saving the Omani regime and preventing Soviet-backed guerrillas from seizing control of the Persian Gulf. MoD restrictions are now lifted, enabling Tony Jeapes to reveal key details he was forced to omit in 1980.
- ISBN10 000472514X
- ISBN13 9780004725147
- Publish Date 6 March 2000 (first published 8 February 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 September 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 380
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk