SAS BRAVO THREE ZERO - Des Powell (epub) (Nonfiction)

SAS Bravo Three Zero by Des Powell (with Damien Lewis)
Year First Published: 2022
Category/Genre: Nonfiction, Military History, Memoir

SAS Bravo Three Zero is the gripping, firsthand account of an elite British Special Air Service (SAS) patrol’s mission behind enemy lines during the opening hours of the 1991 Gulf War. Written by Des Powell—second-in-command of the Bravo Three Zero patrol—and co-authored by military historian Damien Lewis, the book offers a blow-by-blow narrative of one of the most daring and least-known SAS operations of the conflict.

In January 1991, as the Gulf War began, three SAS patrols—Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero, and Bravo Three Zero—were tasked with hunting down Saddam Hussein’s mobile Scud missile launchers, which threatened to escalate the war into a global conflict. While the Bravo Two Zero patrol became famous for its disastrous outcome (with most members killed or captured), Bravo Three Zero took a different approach: deploying with vehicles rather than on foot, allowing for greater mobility and a potential escape route if compromised