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This volume is part of a new series of novels plays & stories at GCSE/ Key Stage 4 level designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text

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Bravo Two-zero

In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-west Iraq and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO ZERO. Each man laden with 15 stone of equipment they patrolled 20km across flat desert to reach their objective. Within days their location was compromised. After a fierce fire fight they were forced to escape and evade on foot to the Syrian border. In the desperate action that followed though stricken by hypothermia and other injuries the patrol 'went ballistic'. Four men were captured. Three died. Only one escaped. For the survivors however the worst
ordeals were to come. Delivered to Baghdad they were tortured with a savagery for which not even their intensive SAS training had prepared them. Bravo Two Zero is a breathtaking account of Special Forces soldiering: a chronicle of superhuman courage endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds.
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In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Sergeant Andy Mc Nab they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad & north-west Iraq & to seek & destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO ZERO. Each man laden with 15 stone of equipment they patrolled 20km across flat desert to reach their objective. Within days their location was compromised. After a fierce fire fight they were forced to escape & evade on foot to the Syrian border. In the desperate action that followed though stricken by hypothermia & other injuries the patrol 'went ballistic'. Four men were captured. Three died. Only one escaped. For the survivors however the worst ordeals were to come. Delivered to Baghdad they were tortured with a savagery for which not even their intensive SAS training had prepared them. Bravo Two Zero is a breathtaking account of Special Forces soldiering: a chronicle of superhuman courage endurance & dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds.

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