Trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons and tactics, covert surveillance and information gathering in hostile environments, and VIP protection, McNab worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. He served in B Squadron 22 SAS for ten years and worked on both covert and overt special operations worldwide, including anti-terrorist and anti-drug operations in the Middle and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland. In 1984 he was badged as a member of 22 SAS Regiment. Delivered to Baghdad, they were tortured with a savagery for which not even their intensive SAS training had prepared them.īravo Two Zero is a breathtaking account of Special Forces soldiering: a chronicle of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds.Īndy McNab joined the infantry in 1976 as a boy soldier. For the survivors, however, the worst ordeals were to come. In the desperate action that followed, though stricken by hypothermia and other injuries, the patrol 'went ballistic'. After a fierce fire fight, they were forced to escape and evade on foot to the Syrian border. Within days, their location was compromised. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO ZERO.Įach man laden with 15 stone of equipment, they patrolled 20km across flat desert to reach their objective. Under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-west Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Dirty, deadly, and fought outside the rules.In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Filled with no-holds-barred detail about McNab's capture and excruciating torture, it tells of men tested beyond the limits of human endurance.

They were fabulous.' - John Major, British Prime Minister. 'I'll tell you who destroyed the scuds - it was the British SAS. 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.

The weather turned cold enough to freeze diesel fuel. Dropped into 'scud alley' carrying 210-pound packs, McNab and his men found themselves surrounded by Saddam's army. 'They are the true unsung heroes of the war.' - Lt. In January 1991 a squad of eight men went behind the Iraqi lines on a top secret mission. They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best.

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