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Subtitle - The Incredible True Story of Navy Seals under Siege.

I have over the past month or so being reading a lot of books about the Iraq and Afghanistan Campaigns and I have to say that I have yet to read a good one.

I also read Micheal Ashner's history of the SAS, "The Regiment". Given that he has produced some very good and well researched books and, this one is weak and not very informative, it is a re-hash of all the other published stuff and there is the fact that he is a former SAS member, it would seem that he is just written the book for contractual reasons, rather than give a open and honest account of the history of the regiment.

There is of course, "Commando" by Chris Terrill, its a good book if you want to know about physical fitness but bugger all use for anything else!

But to return to the book mentioned in the title. This has to be the worst book of the batch! I have to say that some of my bowel movements have been better reads than this book!

Its all "Gung Ho" and "SEALs are the best soldiers in the world" type stuff but he is talking about a incident where was the sole survivor of a attack by poorly armed and trained Taliban fighters!

David Hackworth used the words "stud" and "warrior" as the highest form of compliment to describe his fellow soldiers. Now it seems its "Ironman". What ever happen to the good old English compliments of "he's a good Egg" or "he's a brick" etc?

What is interesting, is that given the description of an "Ironman", it is clear that they would not pass the SAS selection test!

Its a book which you pick up, read the back cover and then put it down and nver touch it again. I wish I had done just that!