In January 1991, in the midst's of the Gulf War, eight members of an SAS regiment embarked upon a top-secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and northwest Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign was Bravo Two Zero.
If you like war stories, you will love this. You may have heard about Bravo Two Zero, the real mission, on the news or through word of mouth. This book takes that story and tells it with knowledge, experience and passion as if you were in the middle of the dessert with the SAS team yourself.
From cover to cover you are kept enthralled, a gripping account of the Special Forces at work. The author, Andy McNab was one of the surviving members of the Bravo Two Zero task force and recounts the story with real vigor. It is a tremendous adventure story. Energy, excitement and fear ooze from the pages of the book, and you really get a sense of what it would have been like as a member of the team.
McNab writes of superhuman endurance, horrendous torture, desperate odds and unparalleled revelations and mixes in factual explanations behind why the team did what, and explains the terminologies behind call signs and describes how a true survivors mind works.
This is obviously only one man's account of the mission-gone-wrong and some may say it is slightly biased, and possibly misleading, but it is most definitely a very good place to start.
Tom Cleeland
Bravo Two Zero
In January 1991, in the midst's of the Gulf War, eight members of an SAS regiment embarked upon a top-secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and northwest Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign was Bravo Two Zero.
If you like war stories, you will love this. You may have heard about Bravo Two Zero, the real mission, on the news or through word of mouth. This book takes that story and tells it with knowledge, experience and passion as if you were in the middle of the dessert with the SAS team yourself.
From cover to cover you are kept enthralled, a gripping account of the Special Forces at work. The author, Andy McNab was one of the surviving members of the Bravo Two Zero task force and recounts the story with real vigor. It is a tremendous adventure story. Energy, excitement and fear ooze from the pages of the book, and you really get a sense of what it would have been like as a member of the team.
McNab writes of superhuman endurance, horrendous torture, desperate odds and unparalleled revelations and mixes in factual explanations behind why the team did what, and explains the terminologies behind call signs and describes how a true survivors mind works.
This is obviously only one man's account of the mission-gone-wrong and some may say it is slightly biased, and possibly misleading, but it is most definitely a very good place to start.
