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SAS: Sea King Down
- Narrated by: Simon Darwen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of one soldier's Special Forces operations in the Falklands War.
After passing the world's toughest Special Forces selection to get into D Squadron, 22 SAS, in 1979, Mark 'Splash' Aston thought he'd missed out on all the action. Too late to fight with the SAS in a decade-long secret war in Oman, when terrorists then seized the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 Splash missed out again when responsibility for the counter-terror role was passed to their comrades in B Squadron just weeks earlier.
Then on April 2nd 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands.
Days later D Squadron were on their way south as the cutting edge of Britain's campaign to retake the islands. And over the next six weeks of fighting, as one extraordinary episode followed another, the action never let up.
From the 100 mph winds and minus 25 degree temperatures atop South Georgia's Fortuna Glacier to a foxhole on West Falkland operating under the noses of the enemy, Splash and the men of D Squadron fought in contact after contact. And in doing so they burnished the legend of the SAS with the astonishing assault on the Argentine airfield on Pebble Island that decimated the enemy's ground attack capability and, in the dead of night, prevailed in their vicious close quarter battle with Argentine Special Forces defending Mount Kent.
But it was an event that was out of their control that came close to defining D Squadron's war: the night their Sea King helicopter crashed into the South Atlantic with 31 people on board. Splash was one of just seven survivors of a tragedy that caused the heaviest loss of life to the Regiment since World War II. Evacuated to a hospital ship to recover from his injuries, he defied orders and a suspected broken neck to escape back to his unit and rejoin the fight until it was won.
This is the remarkable story of Splash's war, but it feels like a thriller. An unstoppable, edge-of-the-seat insight into still classified Special Forces operations during the Falklands War, SAS: Sea King Down will take its place alongside classics like Bravo Two Zero as military adventure writing of the highest order.
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- T C Irving
- 06-04-22
A belting good book. !!
I have been listening to this book whilst commuting to and from work. It is read at a good pace, clearly voiced allows time to visualise what was happening to "Splash" and his colleagues. Thanks for sharing it. It's an eye opener and certainly makes you think about what we perceive as annoying day to day issues when compared to the exploits of 19 and 22 SAS and of course all the other regiments involved.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-10-21
superb
enjoyed every minute, highly recommended. an incredible story of bravery & valour under extreme circumstances
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- Matsumoto
- 18-06-22
Great listen
Sea King Down gives a great insight into the special forces operations that happened during the Falklands Conflict. It also shares the feelings and reflections of the individual soldier in a humble way that other books in the SAS genre do not.
The performance was clear and well read, but clearly not by someone with military knowledge.
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- Richard James
- 13-11-21
Straight to the point
Listened to this after reading Vulcan 607, and wanted to learn a little more about the war in the Falklands. It is a really interesting read/listen, no nonsense language and really engaging. Also good to hear about the experience of the Navy and their living conditions during the conflict. Narration is top class
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- J. Dyke
- 01-08-22
Honest and thrilling account
A thrilling and honest account of SAS soldiers at war in the Falklands. A lot more to the book than just the helicopter crash. Well worth a read or listen.
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- FAB
- 26-05-23
Interesting take in life in the SAS during the Falkland campaign
An interesting story from one who lived and fought through the campaign. Showing the struggle of military life, the losses, the highs, lows and commitments of those who give so much for freedom of those they may never meet.
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- David
- 19-11-23
More than a helicopter crash or three
This story gives a much wider perspective of the Falklands conflict than the title implies. Throughly good read/listen. A few lapses in the narrator’s knowledge of military slang pronunciation only slightly detract from the overall performance. I really don’t understand why the publisher doesn’t run the recording past the author to check such things.
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- david willis
- 07-02-22
Waited a long time for something like this.
Since the British Special Forces had its members sign legally binding papers to say they'll not write about their military career with UKSF the amount of good books about proper active service across the world and not just the Iraq or Afghan wars(of which I'm a veteran myself) has all but dried up.. You get the rubbish from Ant Middleton which is basically a self help, positive thinking Rhubarb, not knocking it if that's what people want but that ain't me.. The the poor stuff from Foxy the other DS from the TV show whose book I was really looking forward too then I read a few chapters and realised that he never wrote those books(1. No soldier calls it a "base" its camp or maybe "barracks" if you're describing which camp you come from. 2. No soldier calls his weapon a gun! it's a rifle or a weapon, only machine guns such as the GPMG is called a gun, but I digress) so the only hope I had of reading the the life an career stories of blokes who have went to the limits of endurance and courage was if a old geezer who was SAS, SRS, SBS, LRDG during WW2 decided to release his diary or the old soldier had been convinced to publish the war stuff he'd wrote down for his kids and grandkids by his Family or the rare books from the Aussie, Kiwi and Rhodesian SAS.... Or even more rare a bloke who'd been SF and fought in Malaya, the Jebel Akdar, Borneo, Aden, Dhofar, Falklands and Gulf wars or a combination of a few and left before the papers were ready for signing so escaped the legal problems of publishing their own books and This is what we have here, a man who soldiered before the gagging order has finally decided to write about his important role with the regiment during the Falklands war, this book and others like it are truly the SF books I look forward too and they certainly make it easier for my wife to know what I want for Xmas and birthday presents... More of these please.. Well done on a book well written Splash Aston.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-07-22
A great listen, raw, dark, funny, gripped all the way through
Unable to turn this off, the dark humour had me laughing out loud, the story and journey the book takes you on is well laid out, interesting facts insiders viewpoints, the knitting of the various forces, the respect to to fallen, the real fear of the troops, the banter between brothers!
More please gents!
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- Michael W.
- 13-09-22
Enjoyed from start to finish excellently narrated
insight in to how the SAS operated in the Falklands war and the challenges they had to overcome. Excellent narration.
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