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Summary: Interesting read, but not as informative as I'd've liked
Review: For Andy McNab's best work, read BRAVO TWO ZERO, the harrowing account of McNab's duty in Iraq and unfortunate capture by Iraqi forces during Gulf War I. You get a much more detailed account of what's involved in planning and executing a mission in the SAS, and the story is much more involving.Still, IMMEDIATE ACTION is a good read and clears up a lot of the details about special forces duty that civilians like myself might have. While the book sells itself as divulging information that the British government wanted to "suppress," I found myself asking more questions. I think McNab holds back quite a bit. I can't fault him. I'm sure a lot of the information he withholds is crucial to the national security of Britain and for honor's sake alone, had to remain secret. You get a real good idea what kind of duty the SAS has been involved with for the past three decades. From IRA suppression in Northern Ireland, to South Africa, Belize and drug cartel suppression in Colombia, the SAS really gets around. And the variation of the missions is impressive. The SAS trains its troops to be able to handle all sorts of duty, from surveillance, to assault, to training the forces of other countries, the SAS does it all. The final mission described in the book, in Colombia, is the most fascinating and approaches the level of detail that I wanted to see in the entire book. A good, informative read, but often lacking in the level of detail that I would really like to see.
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Summary: Awsome read !
Review: Great action. Fantastic read. It's as if we were there, with him! Makes us know a little bit more about this very professional unit. I thought that my Officer Training course was tuff...
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Summary: Excellent. From an ex Brit soldier.
Review: Having served with the British Army, I found this book compelling reading, I also read Bravo Two Zero. this is also an excellent book. From my own experience I know these stories are true. Including the one about the drug cartels.
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Summary: The true life of a soldier
Review: I enjoied this book very much, because the facts that happened are real and trilling. I have also read bravo two zero, and I think it was one of the best action-book I have read.
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Summary: Really enjoyable.
Review: I find it confusing to read elswhere that the SAS never carried out raids on drug cartels. Appart from that bit of 'fiction ?' it was a good read. Not that the discription on the raid wasn't exciting but I don't like the idea that it is probably fiction.
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Summary: Immediate Brilliance
Review: I have just finished reading Immediate Action and have to say that it is the best book I have ever read it has lead me to buy the other books that Andy McNab has written and it has also made me think more about what i want to do as a carreer so buy it, it's excellant
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Summary: Thrilling insight to the sas and Mcnab's action packed life!
Review: I have read many books that have come under the same subject- military. Immediate Action is at the fore front of my personal best! This thrilling, action packed true story is a real insight to the SAS, and what it takes to get in, and stay in. Andy Mcnab joined the royal green jackets as a boy soilder at the age of only 16. He expains how he was at the sharp end in Northan Island, where he experienced his first kill. Amongst his early stages of life in the military he gives great antidotes of life as a young squaddy. Mcnab was badged as a member of 22 SAS in 1984, where he undergoes rigerous traning and extremily dangerious operations worldwide, he becomes one of the best perfossional soilders in the regiment. Promotion is also a goal for this man, he hops on the promotion ladder to achive the rank of a sargent, where he has also made it to this level in the green jeckets, but having joined the SAS, he was forced to drop rank to private, this is a standard requirement of all soilders wishing to get into arguably the best special forces team in the world. Mcnab gives the reader a behind the scenes look at what it takes to pass selection & traning: superhuman endurance, fitness, mential and phycial tuffness, and many more needed requirements and skills to even have a chance at passing stage 1! Once in the regiment, his skills had to be sharpened even more, as one mistake in a real situation could be the death of him, and his fellow collegues. And if a operation should be carried out poorly, the troubles will esclate even more, to even the extreme of world war 3. This is the type of pressure that hangs over the SAS members. Another worry to have to deal with! From the streets of Ormargh to the deserts of iraq, Mcnab takes up many roles in all theaters of war. One of the deadliest men alive with a whole genre of various amazing skills ever to be taught, and a real sense of humour and wickedness to complete, Mcnab shows a great chareater in this title, and his book a 5 out of 5, this is a great book to read.Also with photos of Mcnab, the jungle, N.I, SAS traning, dersert, counter terrorest team, weapons & kit, with many more to show. Excellent!
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Summary: REAL AND TO THE POINT
Review: I LIKE ANDYS WORK,HE TELLS YOU LIKE IT IS.THE WORK AND DISIPLINE
NEEDED HERE,MOST PEOPLE JUST DONT HAVE IT,TO KEEP GOING.
WELL DONE MATE.
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Summary: NO immediate action
Review: I loved Bravo Two Zero, and similar books like Black Hawk Down, but despite the name of this book there is in fact very little action. Unfortunately all the flatly delivered domestic reminiscences just enforce the view of squaddies being self-centred little boys who prefer to play with their toys than deal with "normal" life. The only mission that any detail (action) is given is the cocaine plant destruction at the end of the book. After Bravo Two Zero this is a damp squib.
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Summary: A bit disappointing
Review: I must say that I was disappointed with this book. First of all, there isn't enough detail to warrant the tagline "The controversial book the British Government tried to suppress!" Honestly, I have no idea why the British government would not want this book published--it's not like Andy McNab detailed out the whole SAS selection process or gave away classified information (at least not from my point of view). Another tagline on the cover of the book that has me scratching my head is "The explosive true story of the toughest and most highly secretive strike force in the world". This book was hardly explosive, in my opinion. In fact, I was really disappointed with the lack of action in the book. With the two taglines on the book, I expected McNab to detail many of his classified operations he took part in while serving with the SAS. Instead, the book reads almost like an autobiography, telling of McNab's first experience with death as a young boy and how he eventually joined the army to forego jail time. McNab doesn't even get into the Regiment (SAS' vernacular for the SAS) until nearly halfway through the book. Another thing that bothered me with the book is that McNab bounces around when writing. I had to re-read passages several times to figure out what he was talking about because he inexplicably jumped from one scenario to another. It was difficult to follow at times. The book is not totally without merit, though. It was at times entertaining and offered a better perspective into the SAS than I already had. I can't say that I know that much more about the SAS than what I already knew, but it did offer some new bits of information. I wish I could definitively recommend this book, but I can't. To me, it lacked substance and wasn't as exciting or action-packed as I hoped it would be. Others have seemed to find it a good read, though.
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