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Cargando... Bravo Two-zero (1993 original; edición 2005)por Andy McNab
Información de la obraBravo Two Zero por Andy McNab (1993)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very enjoyable read & great that it was a true life experience. ( ) Ultimately its the story of a failure - a mission that went wrong immediately and their attempted escape from it. It's well told, its very readable, very descriptive and the dialogue throughout is mainly believable. Sadly however, a quick google will expose this for being a rather embellished version of the truth. Maybe the publishing company wanted it "sexed up" or something. The descriptions of his interrogation are very visceral and real sounding - but if any person was beaten and kicked for quite as long, and quite so many times as the author claims in this book, they would surely have been even more worse off than he was (as injured as he was); possibly dead or maimed. Unless he truly is the hardest man in the universe... No doubt much of it happened - it just seems to have been exaggerated a bit - as was when they were compromised, apparently (the way its told they take out Iraqi after Iraqi before escaping). So despite being very readable, only 3 stars as its impossible to know now which bits are real and which were made up. As a Desert Storm veteran, I appreciated the subject matter of this book and could relate to some of the general military aspects. However, since the author was British SAS, I gained a glimpse into both a foreign military and elite combat units. Although, I did enjoy the story, the narrative was dragged out unnecessarily. Indrukwekkend, dit verhaal over vakmanschap en kameraadschap. Een van de voornaamste taken voor het Britse 'Special Air Service' regiment ten tijde van de Golfoorlog in 1991, was het opsporen van de Iraakse mobiele SCUD grond-grond raketinstallaties en deze vernietigen. Patrouilles van acht tot tien man infiltreerden diep achter de vijandelijke linies om deze riskante en uiterst geheime missies uit te voeren. Een Britse commando vertelt in dit boek de belevenissen van zo'n patrouille (met de radioroepnaam 'Bravo Two Zero') vanaf het moment van hun aankomst in Saoedi-Arabië tot en met de terugkeer van de overlevenden in Groot-Brittannië. Dit boek geeft een nuchter en eerlijk beeld van het operationele optreden van de Britse commando-eenheden in de Golfoorlog en de risico's die deze mensen op zich namen. Militaire vaktermen zijn hier en daar wat slordig vertaald, maar het boek laat zich bijna als een roman in een ruk uitlezen. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Their mission: To take out the scuds. Eight went out. Five came back. Their story had been closed in secrecy. Until now. They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best. In January 1991 a squad of eight men went behind the Iraqi lines on a top secret mission. It was called Bravo Two Zero. On command was Sergeant Andy McNab. "They are the true unsung heroes of the war." -- Lt. Col. Steven Turner, American F-15E commander. Dropped into "scud alley" carrying 210-pound packs, McNab and his men found themselves surrounded by Saddam's army. Their radios didn't work. The weather turned cold enough to freeze diesel fuel. And they had been spotted. Their only chance at survival was to fight their way to the Syrian border seventy-five miles to the northwest and swim the Euphrates river to freedom. Eight set out. Five came back. "I'll tell you who destroyed the scuds -- it was the British SAS. They were fabulous." -- John Major, British Prime Minister. This is their story. Filled with no-holds-barred detail about McNab's capture and excruciating torture, it tells of men tested beyond the limits of human endurance... and of the war you didn't see on CNN. Dirty, deadly, and fought outside the rules. From the Paperback edition. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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