Bravo Two Zero

This is a detailed account of a secret military mission behind enemy lines during the first Gulf War and how a series of minor setbacks can quickly escalate into a full-blown disaster. I first read it years before I'd had any knowledge of a battlefield. I read it again after I'd been caught up in my own terrifying experience of combat and took away a new appreciation of the realities of war – how stress on the battlefield narrows the field of vision to minute details which distort what is really going on. It's a lesson about war, but also… show more.

Sergeant Andy McNab recounts the extraordinary story of the top-secret mission in Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1998 - to destroy vital enemy communication links and to find and destroy mobile Scud launchers.

Eight members of the elite SAS regiment are dropped behind the Iraq lines in a highly covert operation. But the mission is compromised and they’re engaged in a fierce battle. Trying to escape on foot to the Syrian border, three men die and one escapes. But four men are captured. Taken to Baghdad, they are brutally tortured. This is a story of courage, strength, and… show more.