SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

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So yes, those two or three evenings, they were very, very physical but also mentally draining as well. Standard operating procedure mandates that before an infiltration of any team behind enemy lines, an exfiltration route should be planned so that members of the patrol know where to go if they get separated or something goes wrong.

When we met it, Damien said that the story was interesting because he didn’t know that there were three patrols, Bravo One, Two and Three. According to McNab's account, the patrol walked 20km (12mi) [6] :55 during the first night to the proposed location of the observation post. Accounts in the first two books, one in 1993 by patrol commander Steven Mitchell (writing under the pseudonym Andy McNab), Bravo Two Zero, and the other in 1995 by Colin Armstrong (writing under the pseudonym Chris Ryan), The One That Got Away, do not always correspond with one another about the events.Over the preceding fifteen years Lewis had reported from many war, conflict and disaster zones – including Sudan, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Burma, Afghanistan and the Balkans (see Author's Gallery). They exited the vehicle with plans to rendezvous on the other side of the checkpoint, but the driver alerted the police, and the group were forced to continue on foot.

Peter Ratcliffe (The SAS's Regimental Sergeant Major at the time of the patrol) wrote Eye of the Storm ( ISBN 1930983018), which refers to the controversy surrounding the differing accounts of the patrol in some detail. Damien Lewis is a Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author whose books have been translated into 40 languages worldwide. Here we get a ringside seat as the implications of poor intelligence, unsuitable equipment and unreliable communications links become abundantly clear.Interspersed with this story are some of the key moments in Des Powell's career, from his initial attempt at selection for the SAS - which, aside from the intensive and gruelling exercises he needed to endure, ended in pretty grim fashion - through to some of the happier moments in his private life and the near miss moments in his career that make you wonder just how many cats he had to barter will to obtain some of their extra lives. But with the desert turning bitter and snow starting to fall, they were forced to fight a running battle against the elements as much as the enemy.