Soldier Five: The Real Truth About the Bravo Two Zero Mission |
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Mike Coburn
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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 184018907X
Pub: Mainstream Publishing
Pub date: 2004-10-14
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 66816
Reader Reviews:
Simply Brilliant! (0/0 people found this helpful)
Forget the other books, read the truth.....fiction can be what you want, but the truth will never change. Mike - Welldone.
Well worth it (0/1 people found this helpful)
I would say this is the most honest and frank version of the illfated SAS mission into Iraq. Coburns style is easy to follow and adds depth to the other stories you may have read. Get it
Honest (3/3 people found this helpful)
After McNab and Ryan's accounts of the Bravo Two Zero mission, the Michael Asher's attempt to straighten it out, Mr Coburn's book comes across as completely honest. This book is definitely worth reading.
Attempts were made by the Govt. to ban this book as it shows up the adventure type editing that they subjected to the works of Andy and Chris.
Mike Coburn had to fight for publication.
Well done!
Wonderful!! (7/7 people found this helpful)
Fantastic book! All the way through the horrifying events of the book, Coburn manages to keep his writing humorous and positive. Very well written indeed, it portrays the story really well. Very good writing. The only negative thing i have to say is it's a real shame he hasn't written any other books!! I have searched for other titles by him for ages and ages, hoping he would write something else like Geordie and Andy, and am tremendously disappointed.
This book was written with a different style from The One That Got Away and Bravo Two Zero; while Bravo Two Zero is gory, horrifying and incredibly depressing, and The One That Got Away (also a fantastic book!!) is a clean-cut quite unemotional depiction of the story, Mike looks at the story from different angles, adds some humour and mixes out a quite optimistic story where he f.ex. sees no need to write about wounds with horrifying detail and description.
A really good read! Absolutely worth your money. You won't be disappointed! Seven stars!!!!
Soldier Five (3/6 people found this helpful)
The Parachute Regiment features as a providor of over 40% of the SAS - 10(V)PARA is my background.(Paras who stay para are seen to be sociable, big batallion guys, not loners)
A wonderful book which shows a degree of sensitivity on the part of an SAS member, sensitivity,that I have never encountered generally from SAS guys before.
Perhaps, to get to the tender parts you have to do the Battle School ( Brecon Beacons, so well dealt with in the book)!
So here is the problem. Who stuffed the whole thing up?
It has to fall to the officer commanding - dance as Coburn does around this fact(despite his Iraqi inflicted gunshoot wound to his foot)he is surprisingly forgiving to those that mismanaged so badly.
The disappearance of trust in the regiment is painful to read.
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