From the abortive plan to murder Hitler, the Iranian Embassy siege in London and the dramatic scud hunt in the Gulf War, to the storming of a hijacked airliner in Marseilles in 1994, this book reports on the covert actions of the world's most elite special forces from World War II to the present. Although it focuses principally on Britain's SAS, the USA's Delta Force, Seals, Green Berets and Rangers, Germany's GS9, France's GIGN and…