Blood for the Baron!

I think Yorkie makes a passing comment on B20. His book is very down to earth and really focused on the near fugg-up at the Victor Two microwave relay centre in Western Iraq. He vents spleen at a low-level, but Cameron Spence followed up with the first of his two books (the second one which covers Bosnia is actually better) in similar vein with a mild-if-amusing character assassination of the then 22 RSM. So, the RSM Peter Ratcliffe then got his own book published to refute all the various 'allegations', and also even jibe at Connor (without naming him). His book was worth a read, not least for further confirming UK special forces' post-Cold War weaknesses by accident, not least as it dwells on highpoints like "..the proudest deh of m'life was t'wen Sir Alex Ferguson came to Heref'd" which may play upon a reader's suspicion that the chap might be a total WANKER.

In case you're wondering, all of these Iraq 1 books were cross-analysed (including the solid CQB by Mike Curtis) for Scud interception data to see if they added up and were of any empirical value by RAND

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fDk ... aq&f=false

Anyway, that's all enough of a soap opera plot summary.

Crossland said that Andy McNab and Chris Ryan's version of events weren't consistent but that was to be expected as they were split up Chopper.

i enjoyed Ghost Force but preferred The Real Bravo 2 0.
great tv show too.

my fav SAS book is the soldier story, great read and an even better tv show

Dammit, too much to read and no time

Double-tap wrote:i enjoyed Ghost Force but preferred The Real Bravo 2 0.
great tv show too.

my fav SAS book is the soldier story, great read and an even better tv show

Yeah Michael Asher's book brings all the B20 BS into focus ... the way he finds some of the belongings of the casualties and takes them back to the UK is remarkable too. Still, he's an idiosyncratic and interesting chap, his Laurence book and documentary were excellent. Asher just wrote "The Regiment" too.

In McNab's book on PTSD and all his B squadron friends who took their own lives he acknowledges the influence of 'Soldier I' on his descision to write a memoir as he'd served with Pete 'Snapper' Wignall in B Squadron when he joined.

So, in all its loony glory, Soldier I (author Michael Paul Kennedy) is the best of all of them, mainly because it's about the long walk to the Regiment, constant operations, losing your marbles, then recovering them.

Chopper wrote:Dammit, too much to read and no time

Luckily they don't take that long to read in most cases! Just realised it's over ten years since I read some of them.