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Sto caricando le informazioni... Zero Six Bravo: The Explosive True Story of How 60 Special Forces Survived Against an Iraqi Army of 100,000 (edizione 2014)di Damien Lewis (Autore)
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Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from conflict zones around the world. Zero Six Bravo'a Sunday Times number one bestseller'tells the story of "sixty special forces against 100,000'a feat of arms to take the breath away." (Frederick Forsythe) They were branded as cowards and accused desertion. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told. In March 2003, M Squadron'an SBS unit with SAS embeds'was sent 1,000 kilometers behind enemy lines on a true mission impossible, to take the surrender of the 100,000-strong Iraqi Army 5th Corps, an operation so risky it earned the nickname 'Operation No Return' right out of the gate. Caught in a ferocious ambush by Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen, plus the awesome firepower of the 5th Corps' heavy armor, and with eight of their vehicles bogged in Iraqi swamps, M Squadron launched a desperate bid to escape, inflicting massive damage on their enemies. Running low on fuel and ammunition, outnumbered, and outgunned, the elite operators destroyed sensitive information and prepared for death or capture as the Iraqis closed their deadly trap. Zero Six Bravo contains previously unpublished information detailing the essential involvement of American troops in this astonishing military feat. Zero Six Bravo recounts in vivid and compelling detail the most desperate battle fought by British and allied Special Forces trapped behind enemy lines since World War Two. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This particular book suffers a bit from excessive hypebole. However it is actually very readable, and although much of the outcome is telepgrahed in advance the way it's done is through a good hook to keep you reading to find out the detail of how/what happens.
You know when you start to read it that the mission isn't going to go well. In fact without even knowing anything about it I picked up that it must have gone horribly wrong. However I also knew that it couldn't have gone that far wrong, because otherwise I probably would have heard about it since I have an interest in current affairs and military operations.
The story follows the perspective of one SBS Sergeant who was the lead navigator for most of the mission. Mainly it focusses on what he sees, and the actions of his three man vehicle crew. On the whole it is an interesting narrative and it gripped me enough to read longer than I normally do.
There's a clear thread running through it of the forebodings, that may well have been how the central character felt, but are laboured to the extent that it comes across as 20:20 hindsight. There are also some rather strained references to [b:Bravo Two Zero|22202|Bravo Two Zero|Andy McNab|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348022403s/22202.jpg|950909] and the similarities with that patrol (both seem to have been compromised because they refused to shoot a child goat herder). That doesn't really wash with me because the goat incident in Bravo Two Zero wasn't repeated in the other books about the patrol and [b:The Real "Bravo Two Zero"|447089|The Real "Bravo Two Zero"|Michael Asher|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356455950s/447089.jpg|1032571] gives another version of events (apparently two Iraqui veterans of the Iran-Iraq War spotted the patrol, not a child goat herder).
Despite this I still think it's worth a read, especially if you get it for the knock down price of 99p as I did. (