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Your support makes all the difference.Bravo Two Zero, at the top of this week's general paperbacks and non-fiction charts, has been a stalwart of this page since its publication last November. After 45 weeks' service on the hardback bestseller list, it has marched to the top of the paperbacks with just one week's leave. It's not hard to see why: a heroic, scary, shocking tale - Catch-22 meets the spirit of Dunkirk - that's purportedly true to boot. Andy McNab (a pseudonym) was a sergeant in the SAS during the Gulf War, who was put in charge of 'Operation Bravo Two Zero', a secret mission to infiltrate enemy lines, cut communication links between Baghdad and north-west Iraq, and unearth and destroy Scud missiles. The 8-man mission was a disaster from the start: dropped by helicopter too close to Iraqi units, unable to establish radio contact, they didn't even know it would be cold. After fierce firefighting, they were forced to trek to Syria. Three died, one escaped. Four were captured, taken to Baghdad and tortured until they told the Iraqis what they wanted to hear. Narrated unsentimentally and with large doses of squaddie humour, this is a real-life story we weren't supposed to hear. How true it is (and what, if any, relevance the escapade had to the outcome of the Gulf War) we will never know.
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