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Summary: Chilling story, but contrasts to other accounts.
Review: "The One That Got Away" once again tells the amazing story of the SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, and it is a chilling read. However it suffers slightly from the fact that Ryan makes McNab out to be the main one at fault for the failed mission, and emphasises his own heroics. This maybe true, but it may be some time before the real truth comes out about the mission without someone trying to sensationalise their role. Despite this Ryan keeps you on the edge of your seat, and his personal journey across the desert escaping from the Iraqi forces is something that few could dream of experiencing. This book shows the high level of training that the SAS undertake, and the high risk operations that they go on. This is war in its reality, not the war where soldiers sleep in their 11x11 tents and have cooked meals every night as well as running water. These men are true soldiers, and Ryan has portrayed this very well.
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Summary: Absolutely No. 1 book
Review: This is an horrifying description of an SAS patrol behind enymy lines during the Gulf war, and what turned out to be an ordeal for Ryan when the patrol was split up and on the run. Read it. Also worth checking out is Mr. Ryan«s 3 non-fiction book. "Stand by, Stand by" "Zero Option" "The Kremlin Device" a fourth book to be published in july 99. It«s called "Tenth man down". His hero in these books is an SAS operator called Geordie Sharp, being involved in many operations from South America to Moscow/Russia. More books please, Mr. Ryan.
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Summary: Excellent: the whole point is that is a true story!
Review: This is a reply to Sudan Hussain who entered an earlier review: basically this is true so Iraq didn't beat those "dumb" commandos. Those 8 men made mincemeat out of the dumb Iraqis - and long may it continue!
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Summary: Defying Certain Death
Review: I found this book to be almost just as good as Mr. Ryans' teammate, Mr. McNab. I found a few jabs thrown at Mr. McNab, but feel that the angst between the two isn't well deserved--and quite silly. Especially for two individuals who done the impossible, and overcame odds that would've killed any normal human being. To walk for several days without food or water is incredible--to do it in a desert enviorment is just simply amazing. Once again here is a small opening into what makes Special Operation soldiers a cut above the rest. As an ex-Spec Op soldier like myself, I'm glad Mr. Ryan sheds light on his training--the very thing that made him survive in the Iraqi desert. To the civilian public at large, learn from this. Understand that without the brutal training that units like the SAS and others go through, people like these would've never been able to stick it out, and live to tell this fascinating story. I commend you Mr. Ryan!
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Summary: An example of human survival at extreme conditions.
Review: I simply got hooked to his text. Not because it would've been written to be action-paced or filled with excitement, but because it gives quite clear picture of how you feel and suffer when you're left alone in the desert with inappropriate equipment and information. I didn't notice any misplaced quilt accusations, what would've not been correct. Chris blamed himself as he blamed the others. A must read for people who're interested in true stories of SAS warfare and hows it handled, but this time not so correctly.
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Summary: Un-realistic
Review: This book is a load of rubbish. Iraq would murder those dumb commandos
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Summary: A gripping war story
Review: The one that got away is a brilliant war story with excellent detailed accounts of the Gulf War. This book has given me a whole new understanding of the events that took place. I give this book my highest rating and would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: What a free world operator did for one country's freedom!
Review: An outstanding look into a mission gone wrong. Chris Ryan gives an honest account of the team's rights and wrongs on their mission and his book is a great companion to Andy McNab's(B2Zero Team Leader)book. Taken together, these two books give you the complete picture of an operation from isolation to evasion. Chris Ryan has not pulled any punches and tells us how it was. His escape from Iraq is one of the world's great stories of human endurance. A must read!
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Summary: ultimate praise for men like Ryan.
Review: tough man, and great fortitude, which is not discovered by 'selection' alone.orienteering and navigational experience saved Ryan's life, without which he would probably not have survived this conflict, although judging from my chair that is a harsh opinion.He did make some bad decisions, especially trying to avoid the goat herder, he and the dentist should have grabbed the situation by the root canal,but you couldn't hear me whilst i was reading it 7 years later!
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Summary: The One That Got Away
Review: I found Chris Ryan's account of the Bravo Two Zero patrol to be quite interesting. I have read all of Andy McNab's books and I have read alot of information surrounding the patrol (in newspapers, other books, etc). I do not want to put Chris Ryan down, but he does put down the rest of the patrol and particularly Andy McNab. I have seen his movie and I understand Chris did not have much to do with the way Andy came across. However, he still made Andy look bad in the book and this obviously carried over to the movie. I can only hope he and Andy will reconcile their differences and become friends again. What they did and more importantly, what the patrol did is remarkable.
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