Funnies
Caroline Moorehead, 5 February 1981
Siege! Princes Gate
by the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ Team.
Hamlyn, 131 pp., May 1980,0 600 20337 9 Show More
by the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ Team.
Hamlyn, 131 pp., May 1980,
Siege: Six Days at the Iranian Embassy
by George Brock.
Macmillan, 144 pp., £1.95, May 1980,0 333 30951 0 Show More
by George Brock.
Macmillan, 144 pp., £1.95, May 1980,
“... Britain did not need to look so far. It already had a unit superbly suited to the job – the SAS. Tony Geraghty’s account of its shaping as an urban counter-terrorist force does not make edifying reading. In 1941, a subaltern in the Guards, David Stirling, fighting Rommel in the Western Desert, decided that what the campaign needed was guerrilla ... ”
