History of War

BRAVO TWO ZERO BECOMES LEGEND

n addition to McNab’s (Mitchell) 1993 book and Ryan’s (Armstrong) 1995 work , Peter Ratcliffe, the SAS regimental sergeant major at in 2000, a memoir that also introduces contradictory information about the abortive mission. In 2001, former SAS Trooper Michael Asher travelled to Iraq and conducted numerous interviews with witnesses while retracing the Bravo Two Zero patrol route. His book, , which is largely at odds with the accounts of McNab and Ryan, was published the following year. Trooper Mike ‘Kiwi’ Coburn also wrote a book, , published in 2004.

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