Pathfinder

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- the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest & most secretive units 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially they are the bastard son of the SAS. & like their counterparts in Hereford the job of the Pathfinders is to operate unseen & undetected deep behind enemy lines. When British forces deployed to Iraq in 2003 Captain David Blakeley was given command of a reconnaissance mission of such critical importance that it could change the course of the war. It's the story of nine men operating alone & unsupported fifty miles ahead of a US Recon Marine advance & head straight into a hornets nest teeming with thousands of heavily-armed enemy forces. This is the first account of that extraordinary mission
- abandoned by coalition command left with no option but to fight their way out of the enemy's backyard. & it provides a gripping insight into the Pathfinders themselves a shadowy unit just forty-five men strong that plies its trade from the skies. Trained to parachute in to enemy territory far beyond the forward edge of battle
- freefalling from high altitude breathing bottled oxygen & employing the latest skydiving technology
- the PF are unique. Because of new rules introduced since the publication of Bravo Two Zero there have been no first-hand accounts of British Special Forces waging modern-day warfare for nearly a decade. & no member of the Pathfinders has ever told their story before. Until now. Pathfinder is the only first-hand account of a UKSF mission to emerge for nearly a generation. & it could be the last.