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I have always been fascinated by the various Special Forces. I had heard about Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero and when I saw that this book is about his days in the SAS I decided to give it a try. Written in simple language and liberally interspersed with soldier’s lingo, this book chronicles his early Leggi tutto

As realistic an account of real life pre his selection for the SAS as you're ever likely to get in an autobiography, every word making you realise the day to day existence of someone brought up in the 60s and 70s in Britain. The stories of selection make you exhausted just reading them and the missio Leggi tutto

4 stars - Dutch paperback Review follows later. Lente it out to a neighbour.

Special Forces ever since I came to understand them has been a source of fascination for me. The fact that a handful of soldiers could inflict deeper damage into ant enemy's heart than a conventional military force is nothing sort of a brilliant albeit successful idea. I had heard of McNab from the

Loved it!! Although I was never in the Regiment, I did serve in the infantry around the same time as the author and as you would expect with a diminishing list of destinations at that time, served in almost all of the locations described in the book. I guess this was the main reason I found this book Leggi tutto

Given the subject matter--an autobiography of an SAS soldier up to Desert Storm--you would expect one of two things: a) insightful commentary about the SAS, its methods, its role in the world, and it's interrelationship with Thatcherian policies, or b) a great escapist thriller with lots of action,

I find with Andy McNab’s books that on average I enjoy every other one. Unfortunately this wasn’t one of the books that I enjoyed. The last one I read by McNab prior to this was ‘Bravo Two Zero’ which I thought was fantastic. Although a lot of reader think that the authors writing style adds to the Leggi tutto

"The way to evade dogs is to get on flat, open ground," the handler said. "If you start running along riverbeds, it just keeps the scent in those areas." "Running over a stream is lack shit use, too," he panted as we jogged along behind the dogs. "All the dog does is a thing called casting on the ot Leggi tutto

this book reveals that even killer elite squads like the Regiment are afraid of a hippopotamus.

Most students of Western special operations are aware of the ill-fated Bravo Two Zero patrol during the Persian Gulf War. Pseudonyms such as Chris Ryan ( The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines ) and Andy McNab ( Bravo Two Zero ) became household names in the late 1990s and onward, each Leggi tutto