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Victor Two: Inside Iraq - The Successful SAS Mission (Paperback)

by Peter Crossland (Author)
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  • Paperback: 190 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (13 Jun 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747532893
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747532897
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 331,385 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Israeli government was persuaded at the last minute not to enter the Gulf War when they were told that it was the SAS who were hunting for Scud missiles and disrupting Iraqi communications. The SAS forces inside Iraq comprised two half-squadrons (30 men each with vehicles) and three much smaller foot patrols, one of which had the call sign, "Bravo Two Zero". Corporal Terence Clayton, known as "Yorky", was a member of one of the half-squadrons. His group played a crucial role by destroying microwave communications lines, Scud missiles, weapons dumps and Iraqi soldiers. His 42-day story ricochets between stunning successes and extraordinary cock-ups, moving from corpse-strewn battlefields to stealthy operations at the dead of night.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining review of a life in the SAS, 22 Jan 2002
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This review is from: Victor Two: Inside Iraq - The Successful SAS Mission (Hardcover)
The book covers Peter Crossland's life from his early years, through joining the army, to his service in the SAS and lastly his reflections after leaving the regiment.

The early years are fairly standard stuff, with some interesting information on his service in Northern Ireland, particularly in relation to their repsonse to a planned IRA ambush.

The most absorbing part of the book covers his service in the Gulf, particularly the patrol and attack on Victor Two. Crossland's style is brisk, and an easy read. He describes the minutae of day to day existance and his view of the tensions and dynamics within the patrol.

The book covers the same events and follows a similar line to that taken by Cameron Spence in "Sabre Squadron". One of the interesting things to do, given the pseudonyms used by each author are different, is to work out who is who in each book and compare their assessments of the individuals and actions concerned. Some of the conclusions they reach are similar, some are different. Peter Ratcliffe's book "Eye of the Storm" gives an altogether different persepctive (Ratcliffe is the RSM mentioned in this and Spence's book).

What makes this book different to other books, is the degree of reflection on his personal life that Crossland undertakes. Without going into too much detail, his military service clearly took its toll on his relationships with his family, and there is a very moving description of his feelings for his sons, who don't have an easy life for more than one reason.

I enjoyed the book and would recommend it. I would add the caveat that, as with all personal testimony, this is only one individual's perspective. People mis-remember, embelish and omit. Only by reading widely can one hope to gain some sort of objectivity to events.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good book but theres better out there., 31 May 2008
By T. Glover (watts,LA but now london) - See all my reviews
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'Yorky' in this book describes his exploits in the first Gulf war when the SAS's A squadron were sent behind enemy lines to stop Iraq launching scud missiles on Irasel, one of the best chapters is denintly about the attack on victor two, you can find other books about the attack on victor two in books as 'Eye of the storm' by Peter Ratcliffe or 'Sabre Squadron' by Cameron Spence which are much better books, but never the less Victor two is a good book that a fan of Special forces will enjoy.
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