TY - BOOK AU - Asher,Michael TI - The real Bravo Two Zero: the truth behind Bravo Two Zero SN - 0304364363 U1 - 956.70442 PY - 2002/// CY - London PB - Cassell KW - Asher, Michael, KW - Great Britain KW - Army KW - Special Air Service Regiment, 22nd KW - Persian Gulf War, 1991 KW - Commando operations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-224) and index N2 - Bravo Two Zero was the code-name of the famous SAS operation: a classic story of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Bravo Two Zero by patrol commander Andy McNab became an international best-seller, as did the book by Chris Ryan ( The One That Got Away ). Both men became millionaires. Three members of the patrol were killed. One, veteran sergeant Vince Phillips, was blamed in both books for a succession of mistakes. As Michael Asher reveals, the stories in these two books grew considerably in the telling. Their heroic tales of taking out tanks with their rocket launchers, mowing down hundreds of Iraqi soldiers, the silent stabbing of the occasional sentry, were never mentioned at their post-war debriefings. In an investigation literally in the footsteps of the patrol, one step ahead of the Iraqi police, Michael Asher tells the true story ER -