Just watched a movie that I had never seen or heard of. "Bravo Two Zero" is a 1999 production starring Sean Bean and is about an SAS team in Iraq. It is a good show and is based on a true story. It is a saga of survival when several members are captured. Well worth the time to watch. Anyone else know this show? -- lancer
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Saw that one, when it came out on TV here. True to form, at more or less the same time (I think it was just slightly after), Chris Ryan came out with his own TV docudrama 'The One That Got Away', putting a slightly different slant on the operation. As well as these two accounts, there have been another 5 or 6 in book form only, covering the exploits of the SAS on the hunt for Scuds. No two are the same - like a mystery series for you to draw your own conclusions.
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The movie was well done, but as always you will get more out of reading the books.
It is an entertaining film and the book is boyhood war story material.
However... Michael Asher did a documentary and wrote a book 'The Real Bravo Two Zero' which puts a complete different spin on the matter.
He is very critical of the planning, of Andy McNab and Asher's on the ground research indicates that maybe the fire-fights were not quite as they seem. He actually found items of kit from the soldiers who died; he was given them by the Iraqi villagers and returned them to the parents of the dead soldiers.
As someone posted, Chris Ryan offered another view; so does Asher
However... Michael Asher did a documentary and wrote a book 'The Real Bravo Two Zero' which puts a complete different spin on the matter.
He is very critical of the planning, of Andy McNab and Asher's on the ground research indicates that maybe the fire-fights were not quite as they seem. He actually found items of kit from the soldiers who died; he was given them by the Iraqi villagers and returned them to the parents of the dead soldiers.
As someone posted, Chris Ryan offered another view; so does Asher
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McNabb wasn't patting himself on the back in either the book or movie and he never blamed anyone for the failure of the mission.
I am not so sure, McNab wrote a book that certainly has lots of fire fights and huge number of Iraqi dead. It's a great read but I suspect more fiction than fact. Asher's book and documentry discredited much of McNab's story and Ryan's book also contradicted McNab
Asher, knows what he is talking about in terms of the desert (he has travelled across the Sahara on camal, lived with the Bedouin) and knows about the military (he is old school ex-SAS).
None of this takes away from a special group of soldiers, who I really admire and a number of whom paid the ultimate sacrifice.
I am sure we will never know the real truth though.
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its really is a great film to watch i own it on dvd read the book first which as always was a lot better as someone else as stated chris ryans book was aslo made into a film and from my point of veiw i found to be a lot better,if anyone gets the chance read his book.
