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The one that got away

  • Ryan, Chris

3.33

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The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most talked about stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Of the eight members of the SAS regiment who set off, only one escaped capture. This is his story.Here Chris Ryan has also written an introduction detailing the aftermath of his extraordinary experience; how the former members of the patrol have fallen out and revealing documentary evidence that settles once and for all what really happened on that fateful mission. This edition also includes photographs censored at the time of the original publication.

Genres

  • Biography
  • British Personal narratives
  • Great Britain
  • Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service Regiment, 22nd
  • Military
  • Nonfiction
  • Persian Gulf War, 1991
  • Personal narratives, British
  • Iraq, history
  • Iraq-kuwait crisis, 1990-1991
  • Operation desert shield, 1990-1991
  • Persian gulf war, 1991
  • Great britain, army
  • Soldiers
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About the author

  • Ryan, Chris

    born 1961

    4.00

    8 ratings · 45 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    1st ed., lst Brassey's ed.

    Brassey's, Potomac Books Inc.

    1998

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    Random House Publishing Group

    2009