I would be interested in comments on "The Sixteen - The Covert Assassination Squad That Went Beyond The SAS" John Urwin, Vision Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-904132-14-6
Essentially the author claims he was recruited into a super secret group of British Army assassins in the mid 1950s and trained in a deadly form of combat known as "the machine" which was always sucessful in CQB with the knife, belt ("sash") etc.
He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) and teaches self defence. I have seen his students, and I wasn't too impressed.
Personally I don't believe a word of it. The book reminds me in many ways of the Mushindo nonsesne written by Terry Dukes/Nagaboshi Tomio, ie it is a kind of wish fulfilment.
Yours,
Harry Cook