Werken van Mike Coburn
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Coburn, Mike
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Neuseeland
- Beroepen
- Berufssoldat
Autor - Relaties
- McNab, Andy (Bravo Two Zero)
Ryan, Chris (Bravo Two Zero) - Organisaties
- Special Air Service (retired)
Leden
Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 1
- Leden
- 83
- Populariteit
- #218,811
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 4
- Talen
- 1
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The text in question and the times which influenced it.
The internal evidence of the text.
Bravo Two Zero was the ill-fated mission launched by the British SAS to assist American air power during the Gulf War. It was undertaken by eight men led by two Sergeants. Upon insertion into Iraq, the mission was compromised and the eight arrested. One died of hypothermia; one escaped and six were later released. What exactly transpired and when?
All eight have differing perceptions but Mike Coburn unites the majority to make a compelling case that:
(a) The British Military high command did not collect adequate intelligence and played with the lives of the eight men.
(b) The British Military high command supported Andy McNab's and Chris Ryan's (both members of the infiltration team) highly falsified accounts which scapegoat Sergeant Vince Phillips unfairly and unjustly.
(c) The British Military high command refused to learn from the failure.
The legal battles which Coburn fought to be allowed to uncover the dismal truth behind Bravo Two Zero while augmenting the veracity of the book also encapsulates a separate part of his story. The tragedy here is that a lesser known military maxim holds that the final thanks a soldier receives is vilification. Coburn put his life on the line but received nothing much from his high command. Through the medium of this book, at least, he succeeds in providing justice to lost voices.… (meer)