Across six days in 1980, the eyes of the world fix upon London's Iranian Embassy, where terrorists hold over 20 hostages. Next door, a squadron of SAS soldiers sit quietly, primed and ready to raid the building and rescue those held.

A regiment of British soldiers find themselves held hostage by Sierra Leone's notorious West Side Boys. It is up to the British Special Forces to conduct a rescue on a scale not seen since World War II.

With Africa's smallest country, the Gambia, in the middle of a coup, a select group of British Special Forces are sent in to covertly rescue the absent president's wife and children.