Training secrets of the world's elite forces, from the SAS to Shayetet 13
What does it take, both physically and mentally, to join the world's most respected - and feared - military units? In compelling detail, Jon E. Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons and achievements of special forces and special mission units throughout the world, including the Navy SEALs, the Green Berets, Delta Force and Russia's Spetsnaz.
As well as unlocking the secrets of their training in everything from wilderness survival to hand-to-hand combat, he reveals the codes that bind the members of these elite units together.

JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day, Voices from the Holocaust, The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War. He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out and the Guardian. He lives in Herefordshire.