The SAS, the world's most famous special operations unit, made its name in North Africa, shooting up Axis airfields from heavily armed Willys jeeps. It was the start of a long tradition of fighting from light, fast, highly modified four-wheel-drive vehicles. Following D-Day, the SAS Brigade took its jeeps deep inside occupied France and then into Germany itself, harassing enemy troop movements, calling up air strikes, carrying out reconnaissance and eradicating pockets of fanatical Nazi resistance. When the SAS was recreated after the war, the Willys' place was taken by the new Series 1 Land Rover. With the SAS again specializing in desert warfare, in the 1960s, the unit received a unique new Land Rover, the stripped-down, heavily armed 'Pink Panther'; in the 1980s, these made way for the HCPU Desert Patrol Vehicle, which the SAS famously used to hunt Scuds during the 1991 Gulf War. Illustrated throughout with rare photos and meticulous new artwork, this fascinating book offers a rare insight into one of the most prestigious and secret forces of modern times. Book jacket.