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The real Bravo Two Zero : the truth behind Bravo Two Zero

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'Bravo Two Zero' was the code-name of the famous SAS operation: a classic story of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.

BRAVO TWO ZERO by patrol commander 'Andy McNab' became an international bestseller, as did the book by 'Chris Ryan' (THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY).

Both men became millionaires. Three members of the patrol were killed. One, veteran sergeant Vince Phillips, was blamed in both books for a succession of mistakes.

As Michael Asher reveals, the stories in BRAVO TWO ZERO and THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY grew considerably in the telling.

Their heroic tales of taking out tanks with their rocket launchers, mowing down hundreds of Iraqi soldiers, the silent stabbing of the occasional sentry, were never mentioned at their post-war debriefings...In an investigation literally in the footsteps of the patrol, Michael Asher tells the true story.

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Cassell military
0304365548 / 9780304365548
Paperback / softback
13/02/2003
United Kingdom
English
ix, 259 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
18 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: 2002.
A Sunday Times Bestseller: over 100,000 copies sold 'infuriating' - Andy McNab 'This book is much too good to be left to the SAS-worshippers..readers will find his reconstruction of this 'twentieth-century Charge of the Light Brigade' absolutely enthralling - and share his feeling that the true story is quite stirring enough without embellishments.' - THE SCOTSMAN 'Asher has written a far better and more humane book than either of the two he deconstructs, but he still seems to understand why McNab and Ryan produced the books they did.' - AMAZON.CO.UK 'What really happened when the now-famous S
A Sunday Times Bestseller: over 100,000 copies sold 'infuriating' - Andy McNab 'This book is much too good to be left to the SAS-worshippers..readers will find his reconstruction of this 'twentieth-century Charge of the Light Brigade' absolutely enthralling - and share his feeling that the true story is quite stirring enough without embellishments.' - THE SCOTSMAN 'Asher has written a far better and more humane book than either of the two he deconstructs, but he still seems to understand why McNab and Ryan produced the books they did.' - AMAZON.CO.UK 'What really happened when the now-famous S 1FBQ Iraq, 3JJPR c 1990 to c 2000, BTM True war & combat stories, HBJF1 Middle Eastern history, HBLW3 Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, JWH Special & elite forces, JWL War & defence operations