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Immediate Action- The Greatest SAS Biography?

Advantages: Excellent detail
Disadvantages: Not enough about the Bravo Two Zero events

Andy McNab’s Immediate Action is a great autobiography, chronicling his life from childhood to Bravo Two Zero. He gives an depth of detail that is lacking in some SAS books and keeps you wanting more. He explains his life of crime as a young child and how ...

j2b 09.11.2000 · Read full review
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Advantages: Good information, very detailed
Disadvantages: Some language not suitable for younger readers.

This is a real read and not for the faint hearted. The language is pretty graphic as are the details of Andy McNabs varied life. From the moment he was left in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to. I can understand why the government tried b ...

johanni333 01.09.2008 · Read full review
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From The Author Of Bravo Two Zero...

Advantages: Funny at Times, Very Dramatic and Suprising
Disadvantages: Chapter Length

...Andy McNab, author of Bravo Two Zero, is back with another book about his time in the British SAS Regiment, with "Immediate Action". Not focusing on any event in particular, Immediate Action portrays his life in the Regiment, from when he first went in ...

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the story of one of the greates SAS members

Advantages: you learn a lot about his life and the army
Disadvantages: im sure he missed out some of his roles in the SAS.

this is an exalent book describeing the life of andy mac nab the famous SAS soldier from the Gulf war in Brazo two zero. In his book he talks about why he joined the army, describing the rough life he had as a child growing up in peckham london. The b ...

the_pie_master 24.02.2001 · Read full review
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Immediate Action - a must for SAS fans

Advantages: Informative, easy to read
Disadvantages: Perhaps a little to much time spent on the Latin-America story

An excellent book and well worth a read especially for the die-hard SAS fans. The book is in a way a prequel to Bravo Two Zero where McNab gives his life story from his days as an abandoned baby on hospital steps, his early days as a young squaddie in No ...

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