Boat Troop by Johnny Howard
A novel that tells the story the soldiers returning from the battlefields of the Falklands, about a mission that very nearly happened. Within 2 weeks of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, 4 men of boat troop, B Squadron, 22 SAS, are on the islands too. Operating without backup, it is the mission of these 4 men to gather vital intelligence, with Argentine patrols everywhere and in an impossible terrain. The rest of B Squadron are tasked with a suicide mission: an attack on the Argentine patrols everywhere and in an impossible terrain; and an attack on the Argentine airbase in the mainland. And in charge is a man unafraid to risk the lives of his men in search of greater personal glory...