Operation Sweep: The SAS’s Most Brutal Jungle Raid

In the aftermath of World War II, a ruthless communist insurgency swept across the impenetrable, hostile terrain of the Malayan jungle. To combat the rising threat of guerrilla warfare and hunt down a notorious terrorist leader with a $20,000 bounty on his head, Britain turned to a rogue military...

48 min - Nature & Wildlife - Wonder

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