01419nam a22001697b 450000500170000000800410001702000230005804000140008104100060009508200180010110000270011924501270014626000430027330001330031650007880044965000120123720240921091047.0240827b        sa ||||e |||| 00| 1 eng d  a9781405942614qpbk  aRDAcOCLC  2E  a997.1102 ASTO  aAston, Mark ''Splash''  aSAS sea king downbThe extraordinary true story of the SAS at war in the FalklandscMark 'Splash' Aston and Stuart Tootal.  aUnited Kingdom;bPenguin Books;c2022.  axix, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), c20 cm.bmaps (black and white) ;   a1982, the British task force sails to liberate the Falkland Islands.
Aboard: SAS D Squadron, determined to make their mark.
No one more so than Mark 'Splash' Aston.
Includes index.

But they have barely seen action when their Sea King helicopter crashes in freezing South Atlantic waters, killing 22 of Mark's comrades.

The last out of the sinking wreck, he suffers a broken neck. But defying medical evacuation orders, Mark sneaks off ship, re-joins his SAS comrades to land on a mountain near Port Stanley - to defend it against days of attacks by Argentine special forces . . .

SAS Sea King Down is a pulse-pounding account of D-Squadron's tragic loss and subsequent heroic stand in one of the most hostile places on Earth.

A story told by a man who barely survived to tell it.  aHistory