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Bravo Two Zero (novel)

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Bravo Two Zero
First edition
Author'Andy McNab'
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreSpecial Forces / Gulf war
PublisherBantam Press
Publication date
October 1993
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages411
ISBN0-552-14127-5
OCLC31377154
Followed byImmediate Action 

Bravo Two Zero is a 1993 book written under the pseudonym 'Andy McNab'.[1][2] The book is a partially fictional account of an SAS patrol that becomes compromised while operating behind enemy lines in Iraq, in 1991. The patrol was led by the author and included another future writer, 'Chris Ryan'.

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Controversy

The content of the book was criticised by fellow Bravo Two Zero patrol member Malcolm MacGown, who stated that "incidents such as teeth extraction and burning with a heated spoon did not happen. It is inconceivable that any such incidents could have occurred without them being discussed or being physically obvious".[3]

Michael Asher's investigative book The Real Bravo Two Zero criticised McNab's estimation of the number of soldiers the patrol encountered. According to Asher, the patrol never actually encountered soldiers, only police and armed civilians.[4]

According to the book, at one stage, the patrol evicted all of the occupants from a taxi and drove until they reached a military checkpoint, where Lane shot and killed one soldier, while the others in the group killed two more.[5] According to patrol member Chris Ryan's second-hand account (presumably taken from the Regimental debrief), the group were actually driven to a police checkpoint by one of the Iraqi occupants of the taxi. They discreetly exited the vehicle with plans to rendezvous on the other side of the checkpoint, but the driver alerted the police, and the group was forced to continue on foot.[6] Asher's investigation supported Ryan's version of events, with no reported soldiers, no reported armed contact, and no reported Iraqi casualties.[7]

The SAS's Regimental Sergeant Major at the time the book is set, and fellow Gulf War veteran Peter Ratcliffe said of the book (and of The One That Got Away (1995), "[It is] insensitive on [Ryan's] and [McNab's] parts to hide behind pseudonyms when they named their dead colleagues in their books, in deliberate contravention of the Regiment's traditions".[8]

Ratcliffe further wrote in his own book, Eye of the Storm, "I was somewhat taken aback by many of [McNab's] anecdotes. He made no mention of the meetings he had with the CO and myself [in] which we tried to persuade him to take a vehicle or cut down on the amount of kit the patrol would be carrying".[9] As with Asher, Ratcliffe also cited McNab's estimate of 250 enemy casualties as counter to any proven theory of military kill ratios, but most importantly, the figure was never mentioned in any of the Regimental debriefs given by McNab at the time.[10]

Subsequent introduction of confidentiality agreements

One of the effects of the book's publication and other memoirs resulted in the MoD introducing confidentiality agreements. These meant that serving members could no longer publish memoirs or accounts without the prior agreement of the MoD. Soldiers who refused to sign these agreements faced being RTU'd: the author of Soldier Five was pursued through the New Zealand courts to stop the publication of his book. Those who did publish their experiences, or were suspected of having been sources for journalists, were blacklisted and cut off from any association with Hereford.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Asher, Michael (2003). The Real Bravo Two Zero. England: Cassell. p. 2. ISBN 0-304-36554-8.
  2. ^ Hanks, Robert "Andy McNab: The hidden face of war" The Independent, Nov 19, 2004
  3. ^ Boggon, S (7 December 2000). "How one SAS patrol launched a fusillade of 'kill-and-tell' books, then a fierce war of words". The Independent. Archived from the original on 4 July 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  4. ^ Asher, Michael (2003). The Real Bravo Two Zero. England: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-36554-8.
  5. ^ McNab, Andy (1993). Bravo Two Zero. Great Britain: Bantom Press. p. 165. ISBN 0-552-14127-5.
  6. ^ Ryan, Chris (1995). The One That Got Away. London: Century. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-09-964161-2.
  7. ^ Asher, Michael (2003). The Real Bravo Two Zero. England: Cassell. p. 137. ISBN 0-304-36554-8.
  8. ^ Asher, Michael (2003). The Real Bravo Two Zero. England: Cassell. p. 247. ISBN 0-304-36554-8.
  9. ^ Ratcliffe, Peter (2000). Eye of the Storm. England: Michael O'Mara Books Limited. p. 428. ISBN 1-84317-052-3.
  10. ^ Ratcliffe, Peter (2000). Eye of the Storm. England: Michael O'Mara Books Limited. p. 429. ISBN 1-84317-052-3.
  11. ^ Neville, Leigh, The SAS 1983–2014 (Elite), Osprey Publishing, 2016, ISBN 1472814037 ISBN 978-1472814036, p.29,
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