The SAS was founded in 1941 by David Stirling. Ryan’s own memoir on the subject, The One Who Got Away, never quite achieved the same fame, and it’s possibly no surprise that McNab’s book doesn’t get a mention in Ryan’s bibliography. McNab is a pseudonym for one of the soldiers from the ill-fated Bravo Two Zero mission in the first Gulf War that catapulted the Regiment, as they are more usually known, into the headlines around the world. There’s also no shortage of ex-SAS men turning their hand to writing. The one that immediately springs to mind is Tony Geraghty’s Who Dares Wins from 2002. For an unabashed fan of military thrillers, I certainly wasn’t going to pass up the chance to read an insider’s history of the SAS written by soldier-turned-writer Chris Ryan, even though there is no shortage of books on the subject of Britain’s elite special forces regiment.
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